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Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1107034361, 9781107034365
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4005855 bytes)
Pages
384\392
Topic
Biology Ecology
Time added
2013-10-14 13:01:01

Description

The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment" as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. Green Governance is a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. It opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.

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