Law and Policy for a New Economy

Sustainable, Just, and Democratic

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2017
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78643-451-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Contributors include: S.H. Baker, D. Bollier, M. James, K.B. Jones, C.I. Magallanes, J. Orsi, J. Purdy, L. Ristino, M.K. Scanlan, L. Sheehan, J.G. Speth, J. Taub, D.R.H. Winters, M.C. Wood

Edited by Melissa K. Scanlan, Director, Center for Water Policy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US

Contents:

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

Part II Practical applications
6. Three legal principles for organizations rebuilding the commons
Janelle Orsi

7. Reinventing law for the commons
David Bollier

8. New hopes and hazards for social investment crowdfunding
Jennifer Taub

9. Distributed renewables in the new economy: lessons from community solar development in Vermont
Kevin B. Jones and Mark James

10. Unlocking the energy commons: expanding community energy generation
Shalanda H. Baker

11. The decentralization of food policy and building a stronger food system
Diana R.H. Winters

12. Legal democracy: using legal design, technology and communications to reform food and agriculture systems
Laurie Ristino

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.06.2017
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-78643-451-2 / 1786434512
ISBN-13	978-1-78643-451-7 / 9781786434517
Zustand	Neuware