Law and Policy for a New Economy

Sustainable, Just, and Democratic

Edited by Melissa K. Scanlan, Director, Center for Water Policy, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, US

这本书的理由a New Environmentalism, and using a systems change approach, takes the reader through ideas for reorienting the economy. It addresses the laws and policies needed to support the emergence of a new economy across a variety of major areas – from energy to food, across common pool resources, and shifting investments to capitalize locally-connected and mission-driven businesses. The authors take the approach that the challenges are much broader than setting parameters around pollution, and go to the heart of the dominant global political economy. It explores the values needed to transform our current economic system into a new economy supportive of ecological integrity, social justice, and vibrant democracy.

‘Awareness raising, responsible consumption and investment, corporate social responsibility, legal limits for pollutants, and incentives for sustainable businesses, are all good and necessary; but none are sufficient if our shared common goods, such as a stable climate and healthy ecosystem, do not have equal consideration in law. In the “next system,” the common good will be as precisely defined and as vigorously protected by national and international law as private property and investment rights are today. I thank the authors for paving the path to a true system change.’
– Christian Felber, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

‘If the lawyers of the world don’t find a way to accelerate the evolution of environmental law, we will all be guilty of planetary malpractice. This timely and provocative book sets up our challenge and starts us thinking of some possible solutions.’
– Durwood Zaelke, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development, US