Environmental Law – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Eradicating Ecocide – 2nd Edition

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:17:20 +0000

The winner of Non-Fiction Category of THE PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE (2010/2011). In Eradicating Ecocide, international environment lawyer and Ecocide law expert Polly Higgins sets out to demonstrate how our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by ‘compromise’ laws that offer insufficient deterrence. She offers a solution that is radical yet…

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Earth is our Business

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 23:28:39 +0000

Earth is our Business takes forward the argument of Polly Higgins’ first book, Eradicating Ecocide. This book proposes new Earth law, but it is also about something more than law: it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues…

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The Gilgamesh Gene Revisited

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:41:06 +0000

How it is that humanity has brought itself, along with most other species, to the brink of extinction? In the Gilgamesh Gene Revisited, Russell-Jones provides a time-line analysis of man’s relationship with the natural world that stretches back deep into pre-history and illuminates the origins of many of our most cherished fables, myths and religious creeds, which provide our belief systems…

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