Ecological systems integrity : governance, law, and human rights / edited by Laura Westra, Janice Gray, and Vasiliki Karageorgou.
2015
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Title
Ecological systems integrity : governance, law, and human rights / edited by Laura Westra, Janice Gray, and Vasiliki Karageorgou.
Published
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
Call Number
K3585 .E26 2015
ISBN
9781138885103 (hbk)
113888510X (hbk)
9781315714547 (ebk)
113888510X (hbk)
9781315714547 (ebk)
Description
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)904421078
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Purchased from the income of the Beinecke Fund
Table of Contents
List of contributors
ix
Preface
xiii
pt. I
Biological integrity, ecology and the law
1
1.
Environmental and ecological concerns in Europe and North America contrasted / Laura Westra
3
2.
Access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge and the fair sharing of benefits: the way forward in the European Union / Sandra Jen
16
3.
A regional alternative to the ineffective global response to biological invasions: the case of the European Union / Donato Gualtieri
26
4.
Redefining the relationship between the Convention on Biological Diversity and the TRIPS Agreement: the first step towards confronting biopiracy? / Anastasia Fotinakopoulou
36
5.
The emerging right to land in new soft law instruments / Margherita Brunori
49
pt. II
The right to water and to food -- climate change
61
6.
The right to water: the intersection between international and constitutional law / Antonio D'Aloia
63
7.
Law and the provision of water for megacities / Joseph W. Dellapenna
76
8.
A critique of subsidies for industrial livestock production in the European Union and the United States / Constanze Frank-Oster
85
9.
Promoting the ecological sustainability of climate change-related investments through the Holistic Impact Assessment / Massimiliano Montini
96
pt. III
Environmental legal issues in Europe and beyond
107
10.
Evaluation and development of small island communities with special reference to uninhabited insular areas / Tilemachos Bourtzis
109
11.
Access to justice in environmental matters in the European Union legal order: is there a need for a more coherent and harmonized approach? / Vasiliki Karageorgou
121
12.
Unconventional gas mining -- what a fracking story! Policy, regulation, law and trade agreements / Janice Gray
133
13.
Hidden and indirect effects of war and political violence / Yuliya Lyamzina
149
14.
Commonly unrecognized benefits of a human rights approach to climate change / Donald A. Brown
162
15.
Reconciliation and the Indian Residential Schools Settlement: Canada's coming of age? / Kathleen Mahoney
176
pt. IV
Democracy, ecological concerns and the perils of environmental defence
189
16.
Public health and environmental health risk assessment: which paradigm and in whose best interests? / Colin L. Soskolne
191
17.
Radical changes in Canadian democracy: for ecology and the `public good' / Peter Venton
201
18.
Corporate media, ecological challenges and social upheaval / Rose A. Dyson
220
19.
A complex adaptive legal system for the challenges of the Anthropocene / Geoffrey Garver
232
20.
Seeking justice in a land without justice: the application of anti-corruption principles to environmental law / Kathryn Gwiazdon
243
21.
Environmental defenders: the green peaceful resistance / Susana Borras
256
22.
Mind the gap: state governance and ecological integrity / Klaus Bosselmann
272
Index
284