Reconciling human existence with ecological integrity : science, ethics, economics and law / edited by Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann and Richard Westra.
"Ecosystems have been compared to a house of cards: remove or damage a part and you risk destroying or fundamentally and irreversibly altering the whole. Protecting ecological integrity means maintaining that whole - an aim which is increasingly difficult to achieve given the ever-growing domin...
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1: Overview: foundations of ecological integrity. Introduction / Laura Westra and Klaus Bosselmann ; Ecological integrity: its history, its future and the development of the global ecological integrity group / Laura Westra ; Attaining a sustainable society / James Karr ; A modest proposal about how to proceed in order to solve the problem of inherent moral value in nature / Konrad Ott ; The earth chater, ethics and global governance / Brendan Mackey ; Ecological integriy as an emerging global public good / Philippe Crabbé and Jack Manno
- pt. 2: Ecological integrity and biologicfal integrity: the interface. Introduction / Laura Westra and Klaus Bosselmann ; Ecological integrity and human rights / Prue Taylor ; Eco-epidemiology: on the need to measure health effects from global change / Colin L. Soskolne ; Finding 'Paradise' in a complex web: the inter-relation of biodiversity, ecosystems and human health / Carijn Beumer, Maud Huynen and Pim Martens
- pt. 3: Ecological integriy and environmental justice and ecology. Introduction / Laura Westra ; Aligned: global justice and ecology / Thomas Pogge ; Indigenous rights as a mechanism to promote environmental sustainability / Bradford Morse ; A human right to water: an ethical position or a realizable goal? / Joseph Dellapenna ; The case for understanding inadequate national responses to climate chagne as human rights violations / Don Brown
- pt. 4: Ecological integrity, climate chagne and energy. Introduction / Helmut Burkhardt and Richard Westra ; How the World Bank could lead the world in alleviating climate change / Robert Goodland and Simon Counsell ; The ecological and energy integrity of corn ethanol production / David Pimentel ; Global integrity and utility regulation: constructing a sustainable economy / Peter Miller
- pt. 5: Future policy paths for ecological integrity ; Introduction / Laura Westra ; What covenant sustains us? / Ron Engel ; Confounding integrity: humanity as dissipative structure / William Rees ; Socio-material communication in eco-sustainable societies of the future / Richard Westra ; The way forward: governance for ecological integrity / Klaus Bosselmann.