Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, And The Law Of The Commons

The vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment" as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. Green Governance is a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. It opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound. 9781107415447 1107415446 390 Law NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=cMu2ngEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Burns H. Weston, David Bollier
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Feb 20, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 390 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1107415446
• • ISBN-13: 9781107415447