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C'est une lacune du droit international : rien aujourd'hui ne permet aux victimes d'injustices environnementales de réclamer l'application de leurs droits.Aucune sanction n'est prévue pour ceux qui menacent les Droits de la nature alors qu'il en va de la pérennité des conditions de la vie sur terre.Les Droits de la nature doivent accorder aux écosystèmes des droits à l'existence qui peuvent être revendiqués en justice. Ils proposent la reconnaissance du crime « d'écocide » pour les atteintes les plus graves contre l'environnement que les États et les entreprises non seulement permettent, mais parfois encouragent.Ces principes permettent de considérer la nature comme un sujet de droits plutôt que comme un objet. Cela remet en cause notre conception de la place de la nature par rapport à l'humanité. Car il ne saurait y avoir de Droits Humains et de droit des générations actuelles et futures à bénéficier d'un environnement sain et viable sans la reconnaissance des Droits de la nature et qu'émergent des nouveaux modèles de gouvernance mondiaux.Ce livre propose des évolutions du droit international pour que soit pris en compte la réalité des excès de notre monde industrialisé. Cela implique de faire du vivant un sujet de droit. C'est donc aussi une révolution philosophique du droit qui est proposée dans ce livre.Après la conquête des droits individuels, politiques et sociaux, à l'heure où de graves menaces pèsent sur la nature et l'humanité, il convient de concevoir et d'acquérir de nouveaux droits sécurisant la Terre et ses habitants.Ce livre a été écrit dans le cadre du troisième Tribunal international des droits de la Nature qui s'est tenu à Paris en décembre 2015, parallèlement à la COP21.Un livre nécessaire pour faire de la nature un sujet de droit à part entière.EXTRAITPlus question de penser la liberté, la démocratie et le devenir des sociétés sans les flux de matière et d'énergie qui les trament et les relient à la vie de la Terre. Chaque projet de société suppose et génère son écologie, chaque économie-monde implique une écologie-monde, plus ou moins soutenable. Après avoir d'abord espéré une irénique réconciliation entre humains et non-humains, des penseurs comme Bruno Latour pensent la situation actuelle comme une véritable guerre des mondes. D'un côté les modernisateurs (humains, mais aussi machines et êtres vivants façonnés par le projet de domination de la nature) qui creusent toujours plus violemment la Terre et menacent de la consumer ; de l'autre les « terriens » (êtres non-humains et forces chtoniennes d'une irascible Gaïa, mais aussi d'innombrables collectifs humains en transition de l'arrachement vers la relation) acculés à la légitime défense contre les modernisateurs, à lutter pour que la majorité des ressources fossiles soit laissée sous le sol et travaillant à préserver et nourrir les vitalités régénératrices.À PROPOS DES AUTEURSCet ouvrage collectif a été rédigé par des spécialistes et des théoriciens français et étrangers des droits de la nature et du droit, sous l'égide des ONG Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, End Ecocide on Earth et NatureRights. Ces associations internationales luttent pour la reconnaissance du crime d'écocide par le droit international et organisent depuis 2014 les Tribunaux internationaux des Droits de la Nature.

Environmental justice is the subtext of this collection of anxieties around the need for a sustainable future on Planet Earth. Thinkers and scholars from a diversity of backgrounds reflect on what it means and how cultures must change to greet this future. From Romania to Mexico, Bosnia to Canada, Sweden to California authors analyze and recount community experiences and expectations leading to justice for land, sea, air and wildlife. The kind of ethical weltanschauung for a society in which this kind of justice is achievable is suggested. The collection points to the myriad of single instance decisions that we must all make in living our daily lives whether in our homes, workplaces or leisure time. From good policies to sound management, governments, corporations and community-based organizations will find prudent praxis from cover to cover.

It's a startling reality that more American children are victims—and perpetrators—of violence than those of any other developed country. Yet unlike the other nations, the United States has yet to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Compelling, readable, and interdisciplinary, A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment provides an abundance of skilled observation, important findings, and keen insights to place children's well-being in the vanguard of human rights concerns, both in the United States and globally.Within this volume, authors examine the impediments to the crucial goals of justice, safety, dignity, well-being, and meaning in children's lives, factors as varied as socioeconomic stressors, alienated, disengaged parents, and corrosive moral lessons from the media. The complex role of religious institutions in promoting and, in many cases, curtailing children's rights is analyzed, as are international efforts by advocates and policymakers to address major threats to children's development, including:War and natural disasters.Environmental toxins (e.g., malaria and lead poisoning).The child obesity epidemic.Gun violence.Child slavery and trafficking.Toxic elements in contemporary culture.A Child's Right to a Healthy Environment is a powerful call to action for researchers and professionals in developmental, clinical child, school, and educational psychology as well as psychiatry, pediatrics, social work, general and special education, sociology, and other fields tasked with improving children's lives.

The 5th Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship conference was held at Oxford, UK in 2006. This decidedly trans-disciplinary, international event attracted participants from traditionally separate academic perspectives; each ambassadors for their disciplines and each seeking and making connections with other disciplines and other understandings. Some of the presentations from this conference have been further developed for inclusion in this book, yielding 14 chapters of paradigmatic richness covering issues ranging from environmental education and the nature of global multinational corporations, to the role of environmental activism and consideration of how democratically representative some campaigns may be. This book will be of great interest to anyone working in these areas as well as an excellent introductory journey for those seeking to become pan-paradigmatic.

This book focuses on the concepts of environmental justice and global citizenship from a number of different disciplinary perspectives with the intention of promoting at the very least some interdisciplinary understandings.Initially presented as papers at an interdisciplinary conference on the themes of environmental justice and global citizenship in Copenhagen in February 2002, the chapters in this volume were chosen by election by those attending the conference. They represent the emergent differences of opinion and glimmers of agreement in the conference as discussions of environmental justice and global citizenship inevitably led to considerations of sustainability and Agenda 21. Some degree of agreement did emerge around the idea of seeing sustainability as a process rather than a predetermined outcome. There was also a shared interest in the pedagogy of educating students in and about sustainability. This volume has been divided into disciplinary or thematically based sections but the purpose of the introductory chapter is to draw links and connections between different papers and different themes in the volume.

As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues.Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters focus on: the impact of development in new industrial regions; the ethical relationship between human and non-human nature; the application of ethics in different cultural and institutional contexts; environmental injustice in the location of hazardous materials and processes; the ethics of the impact of a single event (Chernobyl) on the global community; the ethics of transitional institutions.This collection will both stimulate debate and provide an excellent resource for wide-ranging case study material and solid academic context.

Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond­ heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War. The decline of the East-West conflict has opened up the arena for increased attention to other lines of conflict, in Europe and at the global level. Environmental disruption, not a new phenomenon by any means, is a chief beneficiary of the shift in priorities in the public debate. The Scientific and Environmental Affairs Divi­ sion of NATO has moved with the times and has defined environmental security as one of its priority areas for cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. This book is the main output of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), held in Bolkesjl/l, Norway, 12-16 June 1996. I would like to acknowledge the personal support of L. Veiga da Cunha, Director of the Priority Area on Environmental Security. Research on these issues is now very much a collaborative effort across former lines of division in Europe. NATO encourages, indeed requires, that this be reflected in the composition of the participants, as well as the organizing committee. This meeting was organized by a group of five people from five different countries: Lothar Brock (Germany), Nils Petter Gleditsch (Norway), Thomas Homer-Dixon (Canada), Renat Perelet (Co-Director, Russia), and Evan Vlachos (USA).