Ecological Integrity, Law and Governance

Introduction Part I - Ecological Integrity, Ethics and the Law 1. The State v. The Environment: The Ethical and Legal Implications for State Non-Action in Protecting the Foundations of Life 2. Critical and Analytical Considerations on Climatic Ethics 3. Addressing Climate Change in a Digital Age 4. Funding Policy Choices: Tax and Global Financial Secrecy 5. Bruno Latour on Ecology and Christian Religion Part II - Public Health, Environmental Disasters and Crimes Against Humanity 6. Reforming Reparations for Mass Human Rights Abuses: A Canadian Model 7. The Struggle over the Dakota Access Pipeline in the Context of Native American History 8. Navigating Complexity, Promoting Health: Insights from the emergence of 'Ecohealth' and 'One Health' 9. Trading Health: A Community Health Impact Assessment Perspective of the Trans-Pacific Partnership 10. Indirect Health Effects Consequent to the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, March 11, 2011 11. Civil Society Preventing Environmental Disasters 12. A Global Update on the Ambit of Unconventional Gas Mining-and an Alternative Framework for Mediating Energy Demands Part III - New Challenges to Global Governance 13. The Reactionary Turn in American Environmental Policy: The Trump Effect 14. Moving From Environmental Law to Ecological Law: Frameworks, Priorities and Strategies 15. Achieving Traction for Ethics in Environmental Policy-Making 16. Planet Ocean and Marine Protected Areas: An Opportunity for Ecological Commons Governance Part IV - The Future of Ecological Integrity 17. Towards World Federalism for International Peace and a Sustainable Environment 18. A Utopian Democratic Revolution to Overcome Flawed Democracy and Ecological Catastrophe 19. Can the Philanthropic Imperative Enhance International Health Care? 20. The Uses of Poetry to Effect Positive Climate-Change Policy 21. Can the Earth Charter Movement Be Renewed? The Covenantal Promise of the Earth Charter Movement Conclusion: The Ever-Increasing Importance of Ecological Integrity in International and National Law