The common good and environmental governance for the support of life / edited by Laura Westra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westra, Laura, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

"The ongoing environmental crisis has given rise to grave concerns everywhere, and a number of authors have approached this topic from various disciplines and points of view, proposing different strategies to address and correct the situation. A major problem, however, is presented by the role and possible efficiency of existing legal regimes, most of which do not consider seriously the ecological problems that are the basis of most of the global problems that beset us.In 2015, Italy hosted the 2015 Expo of Milano, an important fair that attempted to address some of these major issues, primarily the availability of safe food and water, and the legal regimes that govern their distribution. The conference that resulted in this volume took place at the University of Parma, an old university in a city roughly one hour away.This volume discusses a variety of environmental and ecological issues from the standpoint of existing legal instruments, with a primary focus on the necessity for ecologically-oriented governance, in order to mitigate and redress a situation that - at present - supports multiple human rights violations."

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 2, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9926-7

OCLC:

956988933