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Beschreibung
A call to action to protect our planet through law. In Eradicating Ecocide, Polly Higgins demonstrates how corporations and governments are destroying our planet, enabled by inadequate laws. This book offers a radical yet pragmatic solution: making ecocide an international crime.

Higgins examines laws that work and those that don't, providing examples from history and across nations. She reveals what is required to prevent escalating destruction and offers a comprehensive overview of the legal steps needed to protect the environment.

  • Understand the power of law to change everything.
  • Discover how to hold corporations accountable for environmental damage.
  • Learn about the legal steps needed to prevent ecocide.
Eradicating Ecocide is for lawyers, policymakers, environmental activists, business leaders, and anyone who wants to create a sustainable future.
A call to action to protect our planet through law. In Eradicating Ecocide, Polly Higgins demonstrates how corporations and governments are destroying our planet, enabled by inadequate laws. This book offers a radical yet pragmatic solution: making ecocide an international crime.

Higgins examines laws that work and those that don't, providing examples from history and across nations. She reveals what is required to prevent escalating destruction and offers a comprehensive overview of the legal steps needed to protect the environment.

  • Understand the power of law to change everything.
  • Discover how to hold corporations accountable for environmental damage.
  • Learn about the legal steps needed to prevent ecocide.
Eradicating Ecocide is for lawyers, policymakers, environmental activists, business leaders, and anyone who wants to create a sustainable future.
Über den Autor
Polly Higgins is a barrister and international environmental lawyer who demystifies our environmental crises from a legal perspective. Advocating a crime of ecocide - 'extensive damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems' - has one basic, overriding tenet, first do no harm. The Ecologist Magazine voted her one of the 'Worlds Top 10 Visionary Thinkers', and she was nominated 'The Lawyer for Planet Earth' by the 2010 Performance Awards.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Öffentliches Recht
Genre: Importe, Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780856835087
ISBN-10: 0856835080
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Higgins, Polly
Auflage: 2 Revised edition
Hersteller: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 134 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Polly Higgins
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2016
Gewicht: 0,285 kg
Artikel-ID: 121056616

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