Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse

Laura Westra is Professor Emerita (Philosophy) and Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, and Sessional Instructor, Faculty of Law, University of Milano (Bicocca), Italy. She is the author, editor or co-editor of 29 books, many on ecological integrity, five of which are published by Earthscan/Routledge. Prue Taylor is Deputy Director, New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law and Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Agnès Michelot is Maître de conférences HDR en droit public and co-director of the Center of Juridical and Political Studies (CEJEP) at the Université de La Rochelle, France.

Foreword Peter Brown Introduction Part 1: The Role and History of Integrity (From Grave Problems to Possible Reversals) 1. Why the Global Ecological Integrity Group? The Rise, Decline and Rediscovery of a Radical Concept 2. Environmental Norms in the Courtroom: The Case of Ecological Integrity in Canada’s National Parks 3. The Future of the Common Heritage of Mankind: Intersections with the Public Trust Doctrine 4. The Exploitation of Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction 5. Ecological Integrity in European Law? Part 2: Ecological Integrity and Basic Rights: The Interface 6. Lessons Learned From the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign About Responsible Scientific Skepticism 7. Granting Development consent by specific legislative act: Choice to circumvent public participation and judicial control? The European Perspective 8. The Principles of Integration and Interrelationships in International Law related to Sustainable Development: Sobering Lessons from EU Law 9. Thinking about the Future of Global Water Governance 10. How the UN Agencies contribute to the needs of the world. Focus on Gender Part 3: From Disintegrity to Ethical Concern: Cases and Issues 11. Key actors of the red sludge disaster in Hungary 12. Dollars and Dreams: Legal Aspirations and Report Cards in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia Part 4: Integrity and the Economy 13. How Regulation of Finance Got it Wrong and How it Still Does 14. Enhancing Global Regulation: Exploring Alternative Financial Machinery 15. Moving Forward with Planetary Boundaries and Degrowth 16. The virtuous circle of Degrowth and Ecological Debt: a new paradigm for Public International Law? 17. Tobacco Wars, Analogies and Standards of Review in International Investment Arbitration Part 5: Moving Forward: New Approaches & Concluding Thoughts Introduction Beyond Collapse: Claiming the Holistic Integrity of Planet Earth 18. The Project of Earth Democracy 19. Dreaming the Universe: Contending Stories of Our Place in the Cosmos 20. Occupy Wall Street: The History and Potential of a Movement to Make a New World Possible 21. Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse: Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights: The Legacy of Rio+20; Saving the Commons from the Market 22. Confronting Collapse: Human Cognition and the Challenge for Economics Index