Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons, (Paperback)

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.

• Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons, (Paperback)
• Author: Cambridge University Press
• ISBN: 9781107415447
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2014-02-20
• Page Count: 390