Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice / Edition 1 available in Hardcover, eBook
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1138584517
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138584518
- Pub. Date:
- 10/24/2019
- Publisher:
- CRC Press
- ISBN-10:
- 1138584517
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138584518
- Pub. Date:
- 10/24/2019
- Publisher:
- CRC Press
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice / Edition 1
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Curated by experts in the field, this expansive collection of papers will prove invaluable to a wide array of policymakers and administrators, environmental advocates and conservation groups, tribal land managers, and communities seeking to create or maintain a sustainable relationship with Nature.
Features:
- Addresses existing projects that are successfully implementing a Rights of Nature legal framework, including the difference it makes in practice
- Presents the voices of practitioners not often recognized who are working in innovative ways towards sustainability and the need to grant a voice to Nature in human decision-making
- Explores new ideas from the insights of a diverse range of cultures on how to grant legal personhood to Nature, restrain damaging human activity, create true sustainability, and glimpse how a Rights of Nature paradigm can work in different societies
- Details the potential pitfalls to Rights of Nature governance and land use decisions from people doing the work, as well as their solutions
- Discusses the basic human needs for shelter, food, and community in entirely new ways: in relationship with Nature, rather than in conquest of it
Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429505959
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781138584518 |
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Publisher: | CRC Press |
Publication date: | 10/24/2019 |
Series: | Social Environmental Sustainability |
Pages: | 436 |
Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Chris Maser spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, subarctic, desert, coastal, and agricultural settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, he was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt, (1963-1964) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967), where he participated in a study of tick-borne diseases for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt. He conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. He was a research ecologist with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for thirteen yearsthe first seven (1974-1981) studying the biophysical relationships in rangelands in southeastern Oregon and the last six (1982-1987) studying old-growth forests in western Oregon. He also spent a year as a landscape ecologist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1990-1991).
He is an independent author as well as an international lecturer, facilitator in resolving environmental conflicts, vision statements, and sustainable community development. He is also an international consultant in forest ecology and sustainable forestry practices. He has written or edited over 290 publications, including 43 books.