CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING
Academic Publishers
DEMOCRACY, ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
“The Global Ecological Integrity Group has gathered
leading scholars of science, ethics, law and other
disciplines to consider some of the most challenging
environmental issues we face. These thoughtprovoking essays underscore the complexity of the
ethical and policy imperatives of achieving
ecological integrity. In particular, they guide us on
the conceptual and institutional changes needed to
promote democratic governance, a crucial basis for a
just and sustainable future. The editors, Professors
Engel, Westra and Bosselmann, have put together an
outstanding volume of interdisciplinary scholarship
that is essential reading for all.”
―Professor Benjamin J. Richardson
Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
EDITED BY
J. Ronald Engel,
Laura Westra
and Klaus Bosselmann
ISBN 9781443817677
520pp
Hardback
£54.99/US$82.99
“This book enters the vastly contested contemporary
and international conversation on the meaning of
democracy. It addresses two essential ingredients
which are often missing: the capacity of democracy,
actually existing, and normatively considered, to
preserve the ecological integrity of the biosphere,
and the complicated but vital relationship between
democracy and international law. The editors and
contributors to this amazingly rich volume are united
in the understanding that the meaning and
institutions of actually existing ‘democracy’ must be
transformed if this term is to indicate a form of
governance which is adequate to the challenges
which stand before 21st century global civilization.”
―Stephen Rowe
Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Studies,
Grand Valley State University
“There is perhaps no issue that is more neglected yet
more critical for the flourishing of Earth's
community than the intersection of democracy,
ecology, and law. This book is ground breaking and
dialogue changing. It stands alone as an important
contribution, not simply because of the high quality
of the essays but because of the pressing concerns
they share.”
―Mary Evelyn Tucker
Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University
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