Green Governance

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.