Wild Law weaves politics, legal theory, quantum physics and ancient wisdom into a fascinating and inspiring story about how to rediscover a viable role for the human species within the Earth community. This title has been seminal in inspiring the global movement to recognise rights for Nature - a movement destined to shape the 21st Century as significantly as the human rights movements shaped the 20th Century. Wild Law reveals how the governance systems of contemporary civilisations legitimise and promote the disastrous exploitation and destruction of Earth and why an Earth-centred approach is essential to address climate change and the accelerating degradation of the ecological systems on which we depend. Cormac Cullinan explains how to begin transforming industrialized societies to ensure that the pursuit of human wellbeing enhances the beauty, health and diversity of Earth instead of diminishing it. This edition includes a new preface, postscript and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth proclaimed on 22nd April 2010 by the People's World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth.
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"This book of Cormac Cullinan explains with great clarity how we can change our entire approach to governance so that we can continue life on a liveable planet. In its basic outlines this book is one of the finest contributions to the entire field of jurisprudence in recent times." - Thomas Berry, author of The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story and The Great Work. Wild law is to law what quantum physics is to physics" Alessandro Pelizzon, Earth Law, Australia This important book shows not only why we need to revise our governance systems completely, but also how to begin doing so in a way that draws inspiration from nature and from our diverse human communities. - Professor Wangari Mathai, Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2004
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 215 mm
Breite: 138 mm
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978-1-920025-35-9 (9781920025359)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Cormac Cullinan is a practising environmental attorney, governance expert and author based in Cape Town who has worked in many countries in Africa, Europe, North and South America, and Asia. In 2008 he was included in Planet Savers. 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists, a book that profiles leading environmentalists throughout history. He led the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth.
Rethinking governance. The world as we know it. Earth governance. The journey into wildness. The terrain ahead.
