Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis: A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth - Paperback

by Geoffrey Garver (Author)

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.

Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis 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.

Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental law and governance.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Garver teaches part time at McGill University and Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and coordinates research on law and governance for the Leadership for the Ecozoic program of McGill University and the University of Vermont. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Ecological Law and Governance Association and is active in the international degrowth movement. He received his PhD (Geography) from McGill University in 2016 and has a B.S. (Chemical Engineering) from Cornell University, a J.D. from Michigan Law School and an LL.M. from McGill University.