Ecological Law in Practice

<p>This book presents a series of ecological law case studies designed to illustrate in concrete real-world ways how ecological law would transform law in a range of diverse contexts.</p><p>Ecological law is an emerging and currently mostly theoretical discipline grounded in the need to shift away from anthropocentric legal systems which aim to promote economic growth using strong protections of private property regimes and state sovereignty to ecological approaches which emphasize ecocentrism the primacy of ecological limits and intragenerational intergenerational and interspecies fairness and justice. The ecological law case studies presented in this book apply the theoretical principles and concepts of ecological law to diverse real-world situations or activities in several countries and contexts. Taking up a range of examples from Brazil Canada Germany Mexico Nigeria the United States and internationally the book demonstrates the concrete relevance of ecological law to contemporary sustainability challenges as it reveals pathways for overcoming real-world challenges in the implementation and public acceptance of ecological law.</p><p>This book will appeal to researchers scholars and policy makers working in the area of environmental law and governance as well as others with relevant interests in sociolegal studies human geography political science and environmental studies.</p>