Description:
From Environmental to Ecological Law increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law.
Review Quotes:
"Environmental laws confer a green hue upon the ecologically destructive juggernaut that is industrial civilization, without affecting what drives it. This collection of essays explains why it is critical and urgent to transform legal and governance systems so that instead of legitimising the exploitation of Earth, they guide humans to fulfil ecologically beneficial roles within the community of life. More importantly, this book explores how to effect this vital transformation."
Cormac Cullinan
Author of Wild Law: A Manifesto for Earth Justice
"No more insightful book today explores how environmental laws fail us by addressing symptoms, "externalities," not root causes. Grounding law upon ecological foundations can restore Earth's community of life through a resilient order of evolved norms. This book is essential reading for everyone who struggles with climate disruption and biodiversity's broken web of life."
Former Chair of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law
Executive Governor, International Council of Environmental Law
Kerlin Professor Emeritus, Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
"This book offers a stimulating and important perspective."
Edith Brown Weiss
Former Chair of the World Bank Inspection Panel, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC