The Role of Integrity in the Governance of the Commons

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Governance for the Commons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Accountability for the Commons: Reconsiderations

      • Peter H. Sand

      Pages 3-21

   3. Integrity at Risk: Potentials and Dangers of Synthetic Biology and How to Govern with Integrity

      • Franz-Theo Gottwald

      Pages 23-35

   4. From Ecosystem Services to Ecological Solidarity

      • Agnes Michelot, Anna Aseeva

      Pages 37-50

   5. Democracy, Sovereignty and the Challenge of the Global Commons

      • Klaus Bosselmann

      Pages 51-65

3. Human Security, Food and Water Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Pathways to Improved Water Law and Governance: Public Interest Litigation and Protest

      • Janice Gray

      Pages 69-89

   3. The Water Crisis in Flint, Michigan: Profitability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Depriving People of Water

      • Joseph W. Dellapenna

      Pages 91-104

   4. International Law and Human Security: The Environmental and Geopolitical Impacts of China’s Artificial Island-Building at Fiery Cross Reef

      • Kathryn Anne Gwiazdon

      Pages 105-122

4. Responsibility for Human Rights Breaches and Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. The Enormity of the Damage Done by the Climate Change Disinformation Campaign as the World Struggles to Implement the Paris Agreement

      • Donald A. Brown

      Pages 125-139

   3. The Projection of Global and Regional Climate Change Models into Selected Ecosystem Functions and Services (Case Study Czech Republic)

      • Pavel Cudlín, Ondřej Cudlín, Lenka Štěrbová, Vilém Pechanec, Jan Purkyt

      Pages 141-154

   4. Bio-economy as a New Perspective for Solving Climate Change?

      • Eva Cudlínová, Miloslav Lapka, Jan Vávra

      Pages 155-166

5. The “Anthropocene” and Sustainable Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. Sustainable Development: Renaissance or Sunset Boulevard?

      • Massimiliano Montini, Francesca Volpe

      Pages 169-178

   3. The Ecological Catastrophe: The Political-Economic Caste as the Origin and Cause of Environmental Destruction and the Pre-Announced Democratic Disaster

      • Donato Bergandi

      Pages 179-189

   4. Ecological Integrity in the Anthropocene: Lessons for Law from Ecological Restoration and Beyond

      • Geoffrey Garver

      Pages 191-202

6. Human Responsibility for Ethical Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203

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   2. Addressing the Problem of Conflict-of-Interest and Moneyed Influence in Public Health: Some Case Studies

      • Colin L. Soskolne

      Pages 205-213

This book explores the impact of disintegrity on various aspects of governance, as the disregard of ecological conditions produce grave direct effects to human rights (to water or food) and, indirectly, also to human security in several ways. International legal regimes need to be reconsidered and perhaps re-interpreted, in order to correct these situations that affect the commons today.


Some believe that our starting point should acknowledge the impact we already have on the natural world, and accept that we now live in the "anthropocene". Others think that the present emphasis on sustainable development needs to be re-defined. Finally, many believe that reconnecting with moral principles both in professional life and in governance in general represents a necessary first step.

• Ecological integrity
• Green governance the commons
• The right to food
• The right to water
• Bioeconomy

• Maple, Canada

  Laura Westra

• Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  Janice Gray

• Schweisfurth-Stiftung, Munich, Germany

  Franz-Theo Gottwald

Laura Westra, Maple, CanadaJanice Gray, UNSW Australia
Franz-Theo Gottwald, Schweisfurth-Stiftung

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