Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis av Geoffrey Garver

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<P>This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth''s human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. </P><I><P>Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis</I> first examines how the history of humanity''s social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why contemporary law is inadequate for confronting this dilemma. The book goes on to propose ecological law-law that maintains human activity within ecological limits such as planetary boundaries while ensuring social justice and equity-as an essential element of an urgently needed radical pathway of change toward a perpetual, mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Finally, it offers a systems-based analytical tool for organizing actions to promote the transition from environmental to ecological law. </P><P>Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book wi