Ecological Integrity in Science and Law

Part I : Ecological Integrity: Climate Change and Water Issues.- Lessons Learned from IPCC's Underestimation of Climate Change Impacts About the Need for a PrecautionaryClimate Change Science.- Animal Based Industries and Climate Change.- Climate Science Before the Courts: Turning the Tide in Climate Change Litigation.- 'Thieves, Shady Deals and Murder': Water Theft, Buy-Backs and Fish Kills in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia.- Refugees at Sea in a Hostile World.- Part II: Public Health and Ecointegrity.- Using Science and Law to Promote Humans' Biological Integrity.- Epidemiology and Public Health Under Siege: In Whose Best Interests?.- Saving Species, Healthy Humanity: The Key Role of Women in Ecological Integrity.- Part III : Ecological Integrity and State Obligations.- African Eco-Philosophy and Its Implications for Ecological Integrity in Africa.- State Global Responsibility for Environmental Crises: The Ethical and Legal Implications of a State's Failure to Protect Human Rights.- Promoting Human Attachment to Place in Ecological Law.- Protected Wilderness: Is It Still Possible?.- Quantum Mechanics and Law: What Does Quantum Mechanics Teach Us?.- Part IV: Ecological Integrity and the Role of Earth Science.- Evaluation of Ecological Integrity in Landscape Based on Remote Sensing Data.- Social and Economic Conditions for Wilderness Protection in Europe: Case of Sumava National Park, Czech Republic.- Is it Possible to Maintain a Biodiversity of Natural Habitats Under Global Change and Increasing Landscape Exploitation?.- Agriculture in the European Union: Seven More Years of Environmental Austerity?.- Part V : Ecological Integrity and the Geopolitical Situation.- The Political Economy of Managing Without Growth.- Opportunity Within Failure: Can the Global Pact for the Environment Learn from Responsibility to Protect?.- The Role of Trusteeship in Earth Governance.- Environmental Damages and Armed Conflict.