The Earth Charter, Ecological Integrity and Social Movements is a recently published book
edited by Laura Westra and Earth Charter International Director Mirian Vilela. This book offers a variety of perspectives through a collection of 19 chapters written by scholars from universities situated in different parts of the world. It provides a series of analyses of issues of concern in terms of ecological integrity, international law for
human rights and social movements and it relates them to the Earth Charter. The book also shows the strong connection between ecological
integrity and social justice, particularly in the defense of indigenous people. It includes contributions from both the North and the global South,
specifically from Central and South America.
Among the chapters are submissions by climate ethics specialist Don Brown, by international
law academic Klaus Bosselmann on the Rule of Law Grounded in Earth, and by Leonardo Boff and
Mirian Vilela on the social movements in Brazil. The other chapters are equally compelling comprising papers from
all over the world and from many esteemed universities.
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These are
the book’s contents:
Prologue: Summons to a New Axial Age: The Promise, Limits, and
Future of the Earth Charter
Ron Engel
Preface
Mirian Vilela
Introduction
Laura Westra
Part 1: The Earth Charter and the Search for
Common Ground
1. The Rule of Law Grounded in the Earth: Ecological Integrity as
a Grundnorm
Klaus Bosselmann
2. The Earth Charter, the Commons and the Common Heritage of
Mankind Principle
Prue Taylor
3. Realising Earth Democracy: Governance from Below
Peter Burdon
Part 2: International Law, Ethics and Social
Movements
4. The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human
Rights: Presenting the Problem as the Solution
Mihir Kanade
5. Norms For Scientific Claims Made in The Face of Scientific
Uncertainty: Lessons From the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
Don Brown
6. What a Difference a Disaster Makes-or Doesn’t: A Comparative
Case Study of Governmental and Popular Responses to Hurricanes Katrina and
Sandy
Sheila Collins
Part 3: International Law, Human Rights and
Ecological Integrity
7. The Law of Transboundary Groundwater
Joseph Dellapenna
8. Oceans for Sale
Jeff Brown and Abby Sandy
9. Land Grabbing, Food Security and the Environment: Human Rights
Challenges
Onita Das and Evadné Grant
10. Is a Green New Deal Strategy a Sustainable Response to the
Social and Ecological Challenges of the Present World?
Eva Cudlínová
11. Frack Off! – Law, Policy, Social Resistance, Coal Seam Gas
Mining and the Earth Charter
Janice Gray
Part 4: Indigenous Voices for Integrity
12. Canadian Avatar: Reshaping Relationships Through Indigenous
Resistance
Kathleen Mahoney
13. Sharing the River of Life: The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign
Jack Manno
14. Indigenous Laws and Aspirations for a Sustainable World
Linda Te Aho
15. Moving Toward Global Eco-Integrity: Implementing Indigenous
Conceptions of Nature in a Western Legal System
Catherine Iorns Magallanes
Part 5: Government Decisions, Environmental
Policies and Social Movements
16. Society, Changes and Social Movements: The Case of Brazil
Leonardo Boff and Mirian Vilela
17. Environmental Sustainability Beyond The Law: A Venezuelan
Perspective
María Elisa Febres
18. Costa Rica: The First Latin American Country Free of Open Pit
Gold Mining
Eugenia Wo Ching
19. The Earth Charter. An Environmental Policy Instrument in
Mexico – a Soft Law or Hard Policy Perspective
Francisco Javier Camarena Juarez