Rule of law for nature : new dimensions and ideas in environmental law / edited by Christina Voigt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voigt, Christina, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law, International.

Environmental protection.

Rule of law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 389 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.

Contents:

Twelve fundamental challenges in environmental law : an introduction to the concept of rule of law for nature / Hans Christian Bugge

Rule of law for nature in a kaleidoscopic world / Edith Brown Weiss

Evolved norms : a canon for the anthropocene / Nicholas A. Robinson

Grounding the rule of law / Klaus Bosselmann

The rule of nature's law / Cormac Cullinan

Ecological proportionality : an emerging principle of law for nature? / Gerd Winter

Sustainable development and the rule of law for nature : a constitutional reading / Louis J. Kotzé

The principle of sustainable development : integration and ecological integrity / Christina Voigt

The need to recognize a coherent legal system as an important element of the ecosystem approach / Froukje Maria Platjouw

An emerging legal principle to restore large scale ecoscapes / Anastasia Telesetsky

Traditional norms and environmental law : the sub-Saharan African case study / Chizoba Chinweze, Chukwuemeka Jideani and Gwen Z. Abiola-Oloke

Rules of law for nature's use and nonuse / Jan Laitos

Realizing nature's rule of law through rights of waterways / Linda Sheehan

Towards a new instrument for promoting sustainability beyond the EIA and SEA : the holistic impact assessment / Massimiliano Montini

Enforcing environmental responsibilities : an environmental perspective on the rule of law and administrative enforcement / Annika K. Nilsson

Mechanisms for reviewing compliance with international environmental law open to private parties / Christina Verones

The green economy will not build the rule of law for nature / Rebecca M. Bratspies

Taking nature seriously : can the UN guiding principles tame corporate profiteering? / Surya Deva

Conservation of marine biodiversity and the International Maritime Organization / Tore Henriksen

Implementing the rule of law for nature in the global marine commons : developing environmental assessment frameworks / Robin Warner

Using the public trust doctrine to achieve ocean stewardship / Mary Turnipseed, Michael C. Blumm, Duncan E.J. Currie, Kristina M. Gjerde, Peter H. Sand, Mary C. Wood, Julie A. Hambrook Berkman, Ryke Longest, Gail Osherenko, Stephen E. Roady, Raphael D. Sagarin and Larry B. Crowder.

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ISBN:

9781107337961

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