Ecological integrity and global governance : science, ethics and the law / Laura Westra.
2016
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Author
Title
Ecological integrity and global governance : science, ethics and the law / Laura Westra.
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Call Number
K3585 .W478 2016
ISBN
9781138647220 (hbk)
1138647225 (hbk)
9781315627168 (ebk)
1315627167
1138647225 (hbk)
9781315627168 (ebk)
1315627167
Description
viii, 209 pages ; 24 cm.
Other Standard Identifiers
40026198654
System Control No.
(OCoLC)930786551
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Table of Contents
Introduction
1
1.
Ecological integrity: between ethics and law
5
2.
Integrity in conflict
13
Introduction
13
Capitalism and globalization in conflict with the integrity of life-support systems
16
Biological/ecological integrity and cosmopolitan theory
18
International law versus cosmopolitanism: the need for global governance
21
Concluding thoughts and plans for the next steps
28
3.
Integrity against racism in conflict situations and migrations
34
Introduction
34
Disintegrity in conflicts
36
Disintegrity and the racist roots of the fight against terrorism
44
Disintegrity and a major threat to humanity
50
effects of unliveable environments: forced migrations, displaced persons and desperate asylum seekers
59
4.
Air, food and water: ecointegrity for the survival of present and future generations
71
Introduction
71
right to food and ecological integrity
73
"Feeding the world without GMOs?"
78
Water, air and climate change: integrity and one earth
83
From one health to the dynamic processes of the wild
89
Concluding thoughts
95
5.
Ecological integrity as a basic human right and the principle of the common heritage of humankind
102
Introduction
102
possible role for the principle of the common heritage of humankind
107
natural heritage and the travaux preparatoire for the UNESCO World Heritage Convention
114
Possible future developments?
122
6.
Ecologically based governance and the future of integrity
129
Introduction
129
Towards a middle path: an attempt to moderate and control ecosystem harm
132
Global ecological governance and "the law of the commons"
138
Green governance and "nature's trust"
143
Other proposals for green governance and sustainability: major obstacles
153
7.
"integrity of the earth": a moral and legal imperative for survival
165
Introduction: Laudato Si', the May 2015 papal encyclical
165
Overview of positive findings for ecologically based governance
168
Review of problems and obstacles in the best strategies reviewed
171
defence of integrity and ecological governance
180
Ecological integrity and the common heritage principle again
187
Concluding thoughts
191
Index
197