Table Of ContentEcological Integrity, Law and Governance
Ecological integrity is concerned with protecting the planet in a holistic way,
while respecting ethics and human rights. Over recent years it has been intro-
duced directly and indirectly in several legal regimes, culminating in interna-
tional law with the 2016 expanded remit of the International Criminal Court,
which now includes ‘environmental disasters’.
This book celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Global Ecological Integrity
Group (GEIG), which includes more than 250 scholars and independent
researchers worldwide, from diverse disciplines, including ecology, biology, phi-
losophy, epidemiology, public health, ecological economics and international
law. It reviews the role of ecological integrity across a number of fields through
inter- and trans-disciplinary engagement on matters affecting and governing
the sustainability of life for both present and future generations. These include
ethics, environmental disasters, crimes against humanity and environmental
health, and how such issues can be subject to sound governance and be incorpo-
rated into international law. The book also looks forward to new applications of
the concept of ecological integrity, such as crimes that result in the exploitation
of natural resources and the illegal dispossession of land.
Laura Westra is Professor Emerita (Philosophy) and Sessional Instructor,
Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, and Visiting Professor, Faculty
of Jurisprudence, University of Parma, Italy.
Klaus Bosselmann is Professor of Law and Director of the New Zealand Centre
for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland.
Janice Gray is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New
South Wales, Australia.
Kathryn Gwiazdon is Executive Director of the Center for Environmental Ethics
and Law, a US-based non-profit organization.
Ecological Integrity, Law
and Governance
Edited by
Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann,
Janice Gray and Kathryn Gwiazdon
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To the Global Ecological Integrity Group past, present and future
Contents
List of contributors x
Introduction: the development of the Global Ecological
Integrity Group’s research and its future aims 1
LAURA WESTRA AND KLAUS BOSSELMANN
PART I
Ecological integrity, ethics and the law 5
1 The state versus the environment: the ethical and legal
implications for state non-action in protecting the foundations
of life 7
KATHRYN A. GWIAZDON
2 Critical and analytical considerations on climatic ethics 19
MARCO ETTORE GRASSO
3 Addressing climate change in a digital age 28
ROSE A. DYSON
4 Funding policy choices: tax and global financial secrecy 37
MICHELLE GALLANT
5 Bruno Latour on ecology and Christian religion 46
PHILIPPE CRABBÉ
PART II
Public health, environmental disasters and crimes against humanity 57
6 Reforming reparations for mass human rights abuses: a Canadian model 59
KATHLEEN MAHONEY
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7 The struggle over the Dakota Access Pipeline in the
context of Native American history 69
JOSEPH W. DELLAPENNA
8 Navigating complexity, promoting health: insights from
the emergence of ‘Ecohealth’ and ‘One Health’ 79
COLIN L. SOSKOLNE, MARTIN J. BUNCH, COLIN D. BUTLER AND
MARGOT W. PARKES
9 Trading health: a community health impact assessment
perspective of the Trans-Pacific Partnership 91
ROBERT RATTLE AND LAURA TOMIE
10 Indirect health effects consequent to the Fukushima
nuclear accident of 11 March 2011 100
YULIYA LYAMZINA
11 Civil society preventing environmental disasters 110
ANNE VENTON
12 A global update on the ambit of unconventional gas
mining and an alternative framework for mediating
energy demands 119
JANICE GRAY
PART III
New challenges to global governance 129
13 The reactionary turn in American environmental policy:
the Trump effect 131
SHEILA D. COLLINS
14 Moving from environmental law to ecological law:
frameworks, priorities and strategies 141
GEOFFREY GARVER
15 Achieving traction for ethics in environmental policy-making 149
DONALD A. BROWN
16 Planet ocean and marine protected areas: an opportunity
for ecological commons governance 160
PRUE TAYLOR
Contents ix
PART IV
The future of ecological integrity 171
17 Towards world federalism for international peace and a
sustainable environment 173
PETER VENTON
18 A utopian democratic revolution to overcome flawed
democracy and ecological catastrophe 185
DONATO BERGANDI
19 Can the philanthropic imperative enhance international
health care? 196
PAUL CARRICK
20 The uses of poetry to effect positive climate-change policy 207
JOAN GIBB ENGEL
21 Can the Earth Charter movement be renewed? The
covenantal promise of the Earth Charter movement 215
J. RONALD ENGEL
22 Conclusion: the ever-increasing importance of ecological
integrity in international and national law 225
KLAUS BOSSELMANN
Index 234
