Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity: Science, Ethics, Economics and Law

Foreword * Part I: Overview: Foundations of Ecological Integrity * Introduction * Ecological Integrity: Its History, Its Future and the Development of the Global Ecological Integrity Group * Attaining a Sustainable Society * A Modest Proposal about How to Proceed in Order to Solve the Problem of Inherent Moral Value in Nature * The Earth Charter, Ethics and Global Governance * Ecological Integrity as an Emerging Global Public Good * Part II: Ecological Integrity and Biological Integrity: The Interface * Introduction * Ecological Integrity and Human Rights * Eco-epidemiology: On the Need to Measure Health Effects from Global Change * Finding Paradise in a Complex Web: The Inter-relation of Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Human Health * Part III: Ecological Integrity and Environmental Justice * Introduction * Aligned: Global Justice and Ecology * Indigenous Rights as a Mechanism to Promote Environmental Sustainability * A Human Right to Water: An Ethical Position or a Realizable Goal? * The Case for Understanding Inadequate National Responses to Climate Change as Human Rights Violations * Part IV: Ecological Integrity, Climate Change and Energy * Introduction * How the World Bank could Lead the World in Alleviating Climate Change * The Ecological and Energy Integrity of Corn Ethanol Production * Global Integrity and Utility Regulation: Constructing a Sustainable Economy * Part V: Future Policy Paths for Ecological Integrity * Introduction * What Covenant Sustains Us? * Confounding Integrity: Humanity as Dissipative Structure * Socio-material Communication in Eco-sustainable Societies of the Future * The Way Forward: Governance for Ecological Integrity * Index

'This wide-ranging book offers a fascinating set of reflections and arguments'Oxford International Journal of Environmental Law