This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity.

Laura Westra is professor emerita (philosophy), University of Windsor, Canada, a sessional instructor at the Faculty of Law, University of Milano (Bicocca), Italy, and visiting professor at the University of Trento, Italy.

Janice Gray is senior lecturer at UNSW Law, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou is assistant professor in European Administrative and Environmental Law at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece.

Part 1: Biological Integrity, Ecology and the Law 1. Environmental and Ecological Concerns in Europe and North America Contrasted Laura Westra 2. Access to Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge and the Fair Sharing of Benefits: The Way Forward in the EU Sandra Jen 3.A Regional Alternative to the Ineffective Global Response to Biological Invasions: the Case of the European Union Donato Gualtieri 4. Redefining the Relationship between CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) and the TRIPS Agreement: The First Step towards Confronting Biopiracy? Anastasia Fotinakopoulou 5. The Emerging Right to Land in new Soft Law Instruments Margherita Brunori Part 2: The Right to Water and to Food - Climate Change 6 Right to Water: Intersection between International and Constitutional Law Antonio D'Aloia 7. Law and the Provision of Water for Megacities Joseph W. Dellapenna 8. A Critique of Subsidies for Industrial Livestock Production in the EU and the US Constanz Frank Oster 9. Promoting the Ecological Sustainability of Climate Change Related Investments through the Holistic Impact Assessment (HIA) Massimiliano Montini Part 3: Environmental Legal Issues in Europe and Beyond 10. Evaluation and Development of Small Island Communities with Special Reference to Uninhabited Insular Areas Grigoris Tsaltas, Alexopoulos Aristotelis, Gerasimos Rodotheatos and Tilemachos Bourtzis 11. Access to Justice in Environmental Matters in the EU Legal Order: Is there a Need for a More Coherent and Harmonized Approach? Vasiliki (Vicky) Karageorgou 12. Unconventional Gas Mining: what a Fracking Story! Policy, Regulation and Law Janice Gray 13. Hidden and Indirect Effects of War and Political Violence Yuliya Lyamzina 14. Commonly Unrecognized Benefits of a Human Rights Approach to Climate Change Donald A. Brown and Benjamin A. Brown 15. Reconciliation and the Indian Residential School Settlement: Canada's Coming of Age? Kathleen Mahoney Part 4: Democracy, Ecological Concerns and the Perils of Environmental Defence 16. Public Health and Environmental Health Risk Assessment: Which Paradigm and in Whose Best Interests? Colin L. Soskolne 17. The Environment, Women and Human Rights Peter Venton 18. Corporate Media, Ecological Challenges and Social Upheaval Rose A. Dyson 19. A Complex Adaptive Legal System for the Challenges of the Anthropocene Geoffrey Garver 20. Seeking Justice in a Land without Justice: The Application of Anti-Corruption Principles to Environmental Law Kathryn Gwiazdon 21. Environmental Defenders: The Green Peaceful Resistance Susana Borràs and Antoni Pigrau 22. Mind the Gap: State Governance and Ecological Integrity Klaus Bosselmann