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1. Confronting Ecological and Economic Collapse

   Ecological Integrity for Law, Policy and Human Rights

   Edited by Laura Westra, Prue Taylor, Agnès Michelot

   From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and...

   To Be Published June 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees

   By Laura Westra

   Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means....

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

   International and Domestic Legal Perspectives

   By Laura Westra

   More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world?s indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
4. Human Health and Ecological Integrity

   Ethics, Law and Human Rights

   Edited by Laura Westra, Colin L. Soskolne, Donald W. Spady

   The connection between environment and health has been well studied and documented, particularly by the World Health Organization. It is now being included in some legal instruments, although for the most part caselaw does not explicitly make that connection. Neither the right to life nor the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity

   Science, Ethics, Economics and Law

   Edited by Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselmann, Richard Westra

   'The ecological challenge demands a paradigm shift in our thinking about the human-environment relation. Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity provides a ?state of the art? account of work on ecological integrity - and offers a compelling vision for the future.? Derek Bell, Senior...

   Published June 25th 2008 by Routledge
6. Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations

   Law, Environmental Harm and the Right to Health

   By Laura Westra

   The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled...

   Published February 20th 2008 by Routledge