Ecological Systems Integrity

<p>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 cultural integrity. </p><p>Written by an international team of both established and early-career scholars from various disciplines and backgrounds, the chapters cover the most pressing and contemporary issues in environmental law and governance. These include access and benefit-sharing; the right to food and water; climate change coping and adaptation; human rights; the rights of indigenous communities; public and environmental health; and many more. The book has a general focus on environmental governance and law in the European Union and offers points of comparison with Canada and North and South America.</p> <p><b>Part 1: Biological Integrity, Ecology and the Law </b>1. Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Europe and North America Contrasted <i>Laura Westra </i>2. Access to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge and the Fair Sharing of Benefits: The Way Forward in the EU <i>Sandra Jen </i>3.A Regional Alternative to the Ineffective Global Response to Biological Invasions: the Case of the European Union <i>Donato Gualtieri </i>4. Redefining the Relationship between CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) and the TRIPS Agreement: The First Step towards Confronting Biopiracy? <i>Anastasia Fotinakopoulou </i>5. The Emerging Right to Land in new Soft Law Instruments <i>Margherita Brunori </i><b>Part 2: The Right to Water and to Food – Climate Change </b>6 Right to Water: Intersection between International and Constitutional Law <i>Antonio D'Aloia </i>7. Law and the Provision of Water for Megacities <i>Joseph W. Dellapenna </i>8. A Critique of Subsidies for Industrial Livestock Production in the EU and the US <i>Constanz Frank Oster </i>9. Promoting the Ecological Sustainability of Climate Change Related Investments through the Holistic Impact Assessment (HIA) <i>Massimiliano Montini </i><b>Part 3: Environmental Legal Issues in Europe and Beyond </b>10. Evaluation and Development of Small Island Communities with Special Reference to Uninhabited Insular Areas <i>Grigoris Tsaltas, Alexopoulos Aristotelis, Gerasimos Rodotheatos and Tilemachos Bourtzis </i>11. Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the EU Legal Order: Is there a Need for a More Coherent and Harmonized Approach? <i>Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou </i>12. Unconventional Gas Mining: what a Fracking Story! Policy, Regulation and Law <i>Janice Gray </i>13. Hidden and Indirect Effects of War and Political Violence <i>Yuliya Lyamzina </i>14. Commonly Unrecognized Benefits of a Human Rights Approach to Climate Change <i>Donald A. Brown and Benjamin A. Brown </i>15. Reconciliation and the Indian Residential School Settlement: Canada’s Coming of Age? <i>Kathleen Mahoney </i><b>Part 4: Democracy, Ecological Concerns and the Perils of Environmental Defence </b>16. Public Health and Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Which Paradigm and in Whose Best Interests? <i>Colin L. Soskolne </i>17. The Environment, Women and Human Rights <i>Peter Venton </i>18. Corporate Media, Ecological Challenges and Social Upheaval <i>Rose A. Dyson </i>19. A Complex Adaptive Legal System for the Challenges of the Anthropocene <i>Geoffrey Garver </i>20. Seeking Justice in a Land without Justice: The Application of Anti-Corruption Principles to Environmental Law <i>Kathryn Gwiazdon </i>21. Environmental Defenders: The Green Peaceful Resistance <i>Susana Borràs and Antoni Pigrau </i>22. Mind the Gap: State Governance and Ecological Integrity <i>Klaus Bosselmann</i></p>