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Law and Policy for a New Economy: Sustainable, Just, and Democratic

Law and Policy for a New Economy: Sustainable, Just, and Democratic

Author: Melissa K. Scanlan
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781786434517
Published In: May 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The current political economic system is misaligned for meeting the global imperatives of rapidly reducing greenhouse gases and sharing wealth more equitably. This book makes the case for a new environmentalism that implements a systems change approach to reorient the economy to be more sustainable, just, and democratic.

This book addresses the laws and policies needed to support the emergence of a new economy across a variety of major areas - including energy, food, common pool resources, and the shifting of investments to capitalize locally-connected and mission-driven businesses.

The contributors take the approach that these challenges are much broader than setting parameters around pollution, and indeed go to the heart of the dominant global political economy. The authors also explore the values needed to transform our current economic system into a new economy supportive of ecological integrity, social justice, and vibrant democracy.

Law and Policy for a New Economy: Sustainable, Just, and Democratic will be of interest to academics and scholars of Environmental Law, Climate Change, Environmental Studies, Political Ecology and Environmental Economics.

Foreword

1. Climate change, system change, and the path forward

Melissa K. Scanlan

Part I Paradigms for an Ecological Age

2. The joyful economy: rising up from the devastation of people and nature

James Gustave Speth

3. Environmentalism for the next economy

Jedediah Purdy

4. Reframing rights and responsibilities to prioritize nature

Catherine Iorns Magallanes and Linda Sheehan

5. The Nature’s Trust paradigm for a sustaining economy

Mary Christina Wood