Description
Ecological integrity is concerned with protecting the planet in a holistic way, while respecting ethics and human rights. Over recent years it has been introduced directly and indirectly in several legal regimes, culminating in international law with the 2016 expanded remit of the International Criminal Court, which now includes "environmental disasters".
This book celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG), which includes more than 250 scholars and independent researchers worldwide, from diverse disciplines, including ecology, biology, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, ecological economics, and international law. It reviews the role of ecological integrity across a number of fields through inter- and trans-disciplinary engagement on matters affecting and governing the sustainability of life for both present and future generations. These include, ethics, environmental disasters, crimes against humanity and environmental health, and how such issues can be subject to sound governance and be incorporated into international law. The book also looks forward to new applications of the concept of ecological integrity, such as crimes that result in the exploitation of natural resources and the illegal dispossession of land.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Laura Westra & Klaus Bosselmann
Part I – Ecological Integrity, Ethics and the Law
1. The State v. The Environment: The Ethical and Legal Implications for State Non-Action in Protecting the Foundations of Life
Kathryn A. Gwiazdon
2. Critical and Analytical Considerations on Climatic Ethics
Marco Ettore Grasso
3. Addressing Climate Change in a Digital Age
Rose A. Dyson
4. Funding Policy Choices: Tax and Global Financial Secrecy
Michelle Gallant
5. Bruno Latour on Ecology and Christian Religion
Philippe Crabbé
Part II – Public Health, Environmental Disasters and Crimes Against Humanity
6. Reforming Reparations for Mass Human Rights Abuses: A Canadian Model
Kathleen Mahoney
7. The Struggle over the Dakota Access Pipeline in the Context of Native American History
Joseph W. Dellapenna
8. Navigating Complexity, Promoting Health: Insights from the emergence of ‘Ecohealth’ and ‘One Health’
Colin L. Soskolne, Martin J. Bunch, Colin D. Butler and Margot W. Parkes
9. Trading Health: A Community Health Impact Assessment Perspective of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Robert Rattle and Laura Tomie
10. Indirect Health Effects Consequent to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, March 11, 2011
Yuliya Lyamzina
11. Civil Society Preventing Environmental Disasters
Anne Venton
12. A Global Update on the Ambit of Unconventional Gas Mining-and an Alternative Framework for Mediating Energy Demands
Janice Gray
Part III – New Challenges to Global Governance
13. The Reactionary Turn in American Environmental Policy: The Trump Effect
Sheila D. Collins
14. Moving From Environmental Law to Ecological Law: Frameworks, Priorities and Strategies
Geoffrey Garver
15. Achieving Traction for Ethics in Environmental Policy-Making
Donald A. Brown
16. Planet Ocean and Marine Protected Areas: An Opportunity for Ecological Commons Governance
Prue Taylor
Part IV – The Future of Ecological Integrity
17. Towards World Federalism for International Peace and a Sustainable Environment
Peter Venton
18. A Utopian Democratic Revolution to Overcome Flawed Democracy and Ecological Catastrophe
Donato Bergandi
19. Can the Philanthropic Imperative Enhance International Health Care?
Paul Carrick
20. The Uses of Poetry to Effect Positive Climate-Change Policy
Joan Gibb Engel
21. Can the Earth Charter Movement Be Renewed? The Covenantal Promise of the Earth Charter Movement
J. Ronald Engel
Conclusion: The Ever-Increasing Importance of Ecological Integrity in International and National Law
Klaus Bosselmann
