Eradicating Ecocide 2nd edition
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85683-508-7 (ISBN)
In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by ‘compromise’ laws that offer insufficient deterrence. She offers a solution that is radical yet pragmatic, and, as she explains, necessary. This is the first book to examine the power of law to change everything. Higgins provides context by presenting examples of laws in other countries and in earlier times in history which have succeeded in curtailing the power of governments, corporations and banks, and have triggered change. Eradicating Ecocide is a crash course on what laws work, what doesn’t and what else is required to prevent the ever escalating destruction. Eradicating Ecocide provides a comprehensive overview of what is required in law in order to prevent ecocide. It is a book unlike any other; based on the principle of ‘first do no harm’, it applies equally to global as well as smaller communities and anyone who is involved in decision-making.
Polly Higgins is a barrister and international environmental lawyer who demystifies our environmental crises from a legal perspective. Advocating a crime of ecocide - 'extensive damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems' she has one basic overriding tenet, first do no harm. The Ecologist Magazine voted her one of the 'Worlds Top 10 Visionary Thinkers', and she has been nominated 'The Lawyer for Planet Earth' by the 2010 Performance Awards.
Note to the Second Edition; Introduction // Part 1: How Law Caused the Commercial Takeover of the World; 1 Taking Stock; 2 Massacre of the Innocents; 3 Telling the Truth about the Birds and the Bees // Part 2: Protecting our Oikos; Principles to Protect our Oikos // Part 3: Eradicating Ecocide; 5 Ecocide: the 5th Crime Against Peace; 6 The Sacred Trust of Civilization; 7 Holding Business to Account; 8 Environmental Sustainability; 9 New Developments // Part 4: Towards a Living Planet; 10 The Commanding Voice of the People // Epilogue; Notes; Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.01.2016 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 133 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 286 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-85683-508-0 / 0856835080 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-85683-508-7 / 9780856835087 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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