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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Colin L Soskolne; Laura Westra |
ISBN: | 9780739117293 0739117297 9780739117309 0739117300 |
OCLC Number: | 163707864 |
Description: | xxi, 459 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Global and local contexts as evidence for concern / Colin L. Soskolne [and others] -- pt. I. Tying governance to ecology, economy, and human well-being -- 1. Institutions for global governance / Klaus Bosselmann -- 2. Covenant of covenants: a federal vision of global governance for the twenty-first century / Ronald Engel -- 3. Market society and ecological integrity: theory and practice / Richard Westra -- 4. Full spectrum integrity index of nations / Helmut Burkhardt -- pt. II. Globalization, human rights, and the human condition -- 5. Linkages among globalization, human rights, and health / Maud Huynen and Pim Martens -- 6. Toward sustainability with justice: are human nature and history on side? / William E. Rees -- 7. Protecting society from itself: reconnecting ecology and economy / James R. Karr -- 8. Strong sustainability and environmental policy: justification and implementation / Konrad Ott and Ralf Doring -- pt. III. Governance for ecological integrity, sustainable ecosystem function, and public health -- 9. Evolution of the ecological integrity debate / David Manuel-Navarrete, James J. Kay and Dan Dolderman -- 10. Collective decision-making bridging public health, sustainability governance, and environmental management / Valerie Brown -- 11. Toward sustainable environmental governance in South Africa: cooperative environmental governance and integrated environmental management as possible solutions to fragmentation / Louis J. Kotze -- 12. Sense of possibility: what does governance for health and ecological sustainability look like? / Daniel Rainham, Ian McDowell and Daniel Krewski -- pt. IV. Covenants and respect for all life, public-good, and traditional knowledge -- 13. Earth charter, ethics, and global governance / Brendan Mackey -- 14. Copenhagen consensus: a global public-good perspective comparing the earth charter with other recent declarations / Philippe Crabbe -- 15. Intergenerational sustainability and traditional knowledge in Africa: the natural resource management perspective / Yemi Oke -- pt. V. Focus (a): governance amid ideological influences in a globalizing world -- 16. Ominous rise of ideological think tanks in environmental policy-making / Donald A. Brown -- 17. Cutting CO[subscript 2] emissions in the atmosphere: a realistic goal or a mere utopian ideal? / Giulio De Leo and Marino Gatto -- 18. Ecological governance at work: a community challenge to genetically modified organisms / Prue E. Taylor -- pt. V. Focus (b): Rights to Food and Water -- 19. Future: world population and food security / David Pimentel and Marcia Pimentel -- 20. Refining international water law / Joseph W. Dellapenna -- 21. Water as a human right: the Sri Lankan experience / Ruana Rajepakse -- 22. Cooperation in promoting ecological integrity and socioeconomic justice in marine fisheries: European community-West African relations / Emma Witbooi -- pt. V. Focus (c): Social forces at play in environmental and human catastrophes -- 23. Institutionalized use of force in economic development: with special reference to the World Bank / Robert Goodland -- 24. Globalization and the degradation of rural livelihoods: a comparative study of Mexico and Vietnam under trade liberalization / Jack P. Manno and Thanh Vo -- 25. Toolkit for ecoepidemiological enquiry under global ecological change / Brian D. Ladd and Colin L. Soskolne -- pt. V. Focus (d): the rights of children: health and the culture environment -- 26. Culture environment: implications for public health, human rights, and ecological sustainability / Rose A. Dyson -- 27. Child's rights to health and the role of the World Health Organization / Laura Westra -- Conclusions: challenging our individual and collective thinking about sustainability / Colin L. Soskolne, Louis J. Kotze, Brendan Mackey and William E. Rees. |
Responsibility: | edited by Colin L. Soskolne ; coedited by Laura Westra [and others]. |
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I plan to use this textbook in my seminar next spring, and look forward to studying it more deeply along with my students. It is a fine collection of subjects and authors. -- Herman E. Daly, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland This collection of state-of-the-art summaries of what ails planet earth offers prescriptions for the effective treatment, care and maintenance of the home we all share. Scientists and scholars from many disciplines and countries have collaborated to compile this timely statement of what we as individuals and as societies and nations must do about the precariously unstable state of the world's life-support systems. In short, we need a system of global governance to deal effectively with environmental and ecosystem deterioration. The whole work is set out clearly and concisely in language accessible to non-specialists, and is supported by rich reference lists to guide concerned readers towards sources of further information. This book should be on the high priority list of required reading for everyone who is concerned about the world and its future. -- John M Last, MD, Emeritus professor of epidemiology, University of Ottawa For those who still believe that we can have our current lifestyles based on the current model of unlimited growth, Sustaining Life on Earth is a revelation; for those who already know that we have hit the earth's limits, this book is a guide. Many thanks for this lovely but challenging collection. -- Maude Barlow, author of Blue Covenant: the Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water This book is a powerful attempt to prove that human intelligence, and the institutions it has created, possess power enough to blunt the force of our ecological destructiveness. It provides a light for the path, one that is badly needed. -- Bill McKibben, author of "Radio Free Vermont" This book needs to be read widely, discussed widely, and the Earth Charter needs to become as familiar today, as the Four Freedoms annunciated by Franklin D. Roosevelt was more than sixty years ago. -- Michael Gochfeld * European Journal Of Oncology, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2007) * Like Cassandra of Troy, according to Homer's Iliad, experts in environmental matters-including biology, ecology, economics, law, public health and social sciences-have come together as 'doomsayers, destined to tell the truth, but never to be believed.' This book brings together experts from relevant disciplines and, under the shrewd pen of its editors, the text is distilled to read as if from a single author. The idea of bridging, and thereby reconnecting the role of humans and their institutions to the global ecology, is shown to be critical if solutions are to be found that will help us to preserve ecosystems and thus more ensure a sustainable future for human populations. Assembling such varied information from multiple authors is the very kind of contribution needed for policy-makers and students alike to help save us from ourselves. The contribution of this book to sustaining life on Earth is unique. Reading it is an enlightening experience and I strongly advise it to anybody. -- Roberto Bertollini, director, Special Programme on Health and Environment, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe The Earth Charter is a declaration of values and principles for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society. -- Tracy Nichols, University of Alberta, School of Public Health Read more...


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