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  • ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY, LAW AND GOVERNANCE
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    ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY, LAW AND GOVERNANCE
    LAURA WESTRA
    Ecological integrity is concerned with protecting the planet in a holistic way, while respecting ethics and human rights. Over recent years it has been introduced directly and indirectly in several legal regimes, culminating in international law with the 2016 expanded remit of the International Criminal Court, which now includes "environmental disasters". This book celebrates t...

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  • ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
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    ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
    LAURA WESTRA
    It is increasingly argued that a focus on environmental sustainability is fundamental to effective and equitable governance, and ultimately for the good of mankind. This book argues that, in the face increasing environmental challenges, it is essential to recognise the role that ecological integrity has played, and must play, in governance for environmental sustainability in or...

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  • TOWARDS A REFUGEE ORIENTED RIGHT OF ASYLUM
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    TOWARDS A REFUGEE ORIENTED RIGHT OF ASYLUM
    LAURA WESTRA / SATVINDER JUSS
    This volume explores the factors that give rise to the number of people seeking asylum and examines the barriers they currently and will continue to face. Divided into three parts, the authors first explore the causality that generates displacement, examining climate change, illegal conflicts and the deprivation of natural resources. They argue that all of these problems eithe...

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  • ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS INTEGRITY
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    ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS INTEGRITY
    LAURA WESTRA, JANICE GRAY AND VASILIKI KARAGEORGOU
    Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cu...

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  • THE EARTH CHARTER, ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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    THE EARTH CHARTER, ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
    LAURA WESTRA
    The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society, with ecological integrity as a major theme. This book provides a series of analyses of ecological integrity as it relates to the Earth Charter, social movements and international law for human rights. It is shown how the Earth Charter project began ...

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  • CONFRONTING ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
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    CONFRONTING ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
    LAURA WESTRA
    From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines. This ...

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  • RECONCILING HUMAN EXISTENCE WITH ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
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    RECONCILING HUMAN EXISTENCE WITH ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
    LAURA WESTRA
    'The ecological challenge demands a paradigm shift in our thinking about the human-environment relation. Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity provides a ‘state of the art account of work on ecological integrity - and offers a compelling vision for the future. Derek Bell, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle...

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
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    ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
    LAURA WESTRA
    More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the worlds indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully recognized in international law. In this incisive book, Laura Westra deftly revea...

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTS OF UNBORN AND FUTURE GENERATIONS
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    ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTS OF UNBORN AND FUTURE GENERATIONS
    LAURA WESTRA
    The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments. It provides comprehensive...

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTS OF ECOLOGICAL REFUGEES
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    ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AND THE RIGHTS OF ECOLOGICAL REFUGEES
    LAURA WESTRA
    Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means. Following on from her previous explorations of environmental justice as it relates to futu...

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