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Ecological law and the planetary crisis : a legal guide for harmony on Earth
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Ecological law and the planetary crisis : a legal guide for harmony on Earth / Geoffrey Garver.
ISBN
1000210707
1000210758
1000210804
1003019250
9781000210705
9781000210750
9781000210804
9781003019251
9780367894511
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 250 pages).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 25, 2020).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Geoffrey Garver teaches part time at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and coordinates research on law and governance for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program of McGill University and the University of Vermont. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association and is active in the international degrowth movement. He received his PhD (Geography) from McGill Universityin 2016 and has a B.S. (Chemical Engineering) from Cornell University, a J.D. from Michigan Law School and an LL.M. from McGill University.
Summary
"This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth's human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity's social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why contemporary law is inadequate for confronting this dilemma. The book goes on to propose ecological law-law that maintains human activity within ecological limits such as planetary boundaries while ensuring social justice and equity-as an essential element of an urgently needed radical pathway of change toward a perpetual, mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Finally, it offers a systems-based analytical tool for organizing actions to promote the transition from environmental to ecological law. Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental law and governance"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Garver, Geoffrey. Ecological law and the planetary crisis Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2024
Series
Routledge explorations in environmental studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The anthropocene as a frame of reference
The human dilemma in the anthropocene
Energy transitions in history and their impacts
How conceptual factors like law helped lead to the anthropocene
An overview of the failures of environmental law
Key examples of the inadequacy of environmental law
What is ecological law?
A mutually enhancing human-earth relationship as the primary goal for law
The systems-based perspective underlying ecological law
The limits-insistent narrative and planetary boundaries
Eleven core features of ecological law
Ecological integrity and attachment to place in ecological law
A systems-based guide for moving from environmental to ecological law
Overcoming ecological challenges of international trade : an illustration
The degrowth movement as a testing ground for ecological law.
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