Derechos ambientales en perspectiva de integralidad : concepto y fundamentación de nuevas demandas y resistencias actuales hacia el estado ambiental de derecho (Cuarta Edición)


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Partiendo de una concepción integral de los derechos humanos, sustentada en su interdependencia, universalidad, globalidad y tratamiento igual, y con base en una perspectiva crítica, esta tesis da buenas razones y argumentos desde un nuevo ambientalismo popular, latinoamericano y alterglobalizador para fundamentar derechos ambientales y su concreción en el Estado ambiental de derecho, a nivel estatal y global, hacia la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas básicas de todas las personas. Los conceptos de huella y deuda ambiental, justicia ambiental, solidaridad y responsabilidad e imperativo ambiental, así como los de democracia y ciudadanía ambiental y cosmopolita, son, además, ideas básicas de límites a las acciones humanas de los poderes que, alrededor del globo, imponen y ejecutan prácticas culturales, sociales, económicas, políticas y ambientales, individuales y grupales, de apropiación, depredación, contaminación, exclusión, discriminación, marginación y empobrecimiento. Este debate se hace desde contextos socioculturales, políticos y ambientales concretos, y busca diferenciarse de las formas como el capital y el neoliberalismo intentan teñirse de verde, tratando de acomodarse a los nuevos tiempos en su idea de dar razones para la apropiación de aquello que todavía no entra en su ámbito propietarista, para continuar, con su espíritu de maximización de las ganancias, quitando valor a los bienes y poniéndoles otro valor, cuando no solamente un precio. La tesis se apoya en otras disciplinas y hace un ejercicio de inter y transdisciplinariedad, en el que además de los enfoques de la teoría crítica de los derechos humanos, la sociología del derecho y la filosofía de derecho, acoge otras disciplinas que la alimentan, como la ecología política, la economía ecológica, la filosofía política y la ética, y destaca además la paradoja entre unos derechos consagrados pero muy poco protegidos efectivamente.




Repensar la sostenibilidad


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La sostenibilidad, cualidad de lo sostenible, hace referencia a un proceso que puede alargarse en el tiempo. Cuando este proceso lo referimos a cuestiones socio-ecológicas, comprobamos cómo, desde hace ya largo tiempo, no son pocas las voces acreditadas que han puesto sobre aviso del progresivo deterioro ecológico y sus consecuencias perjudiciales para la vida humana. Nuestra obra parte de estas negatividades para repensar la idea de sostenibilidad en sus justos términos, y así dar cabida a una variedad de aportaciones que ayuden a restituimos dentro de los límites ecosistémicos.




Derechos ambientales en perspectiva de integralidad


Book Description

Partiendo de una concepción integral de los derechos humanos, sustentada en su interdependencia, universalidad, globalidad y tratamiento igual, y con base en una perspectiva crítica, esta tesis da buenas razones y argumentos desde un nuevo ambientalismo popular, latinoamericano y alterglobalizador para fundamentar derechos ambientales y su concreción en el Estado ambiental de derecho, a nivel estatal y global, hacia la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas básicas de todas las personas. Los conceptos de huella y deuda ambiental, justicia ambiental, solidaridad y responsabilidad e imperativo ambiental, así como los de democracia y ciudadanía ambiental y cosmopolita, son, además, ideas básicas de límites a las acciones humanas de los poderes que, alrededor del globo, imponen y ejecutan prácticas culturales, sociales, económicas, políticas y ambientales, individuales y grupales, de apropiación, depredación, contaminación, exclusión, discriminación, marginación y empobrecimiento. Este debate se hace desde contextos socioculturales, políticos y ambientales concretos, y busca diferenciarse de las formas como el capital y el neoliberalismo intentan teñirse de verde, tratando de acomodarse a los nuevos tiempos en su idea de dar razones para la apropiación de aquello que todavía no entra en su ámbito propietarista, para continuar, con su espíritu de maximización de las ganancias, quitando valor a los bienes y poniéndoles otro valor, cuando no solamente un precio. La tesis se apoya en otras disciplinas y hace un ejercicio de inter y transdisciplinariedad, en el que además de los enfoques de la teoría crítica de los derechos humanos, la sociología del derecho y la filosofía del derecho, acoge otras disciplinas que la alimentan, como la ecología política, la economía ecológica, la filosofía política y la ética, y destaca además la paradoja entre unos derechos consagrados pero muy poco protegidos efectivamente.




Philosophies of Difference


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Philosophies of Difference engages with the concept of difference in relation to a number of fundamental philosophical and political problems. Insisting on the inseparability of ontology, ethics and politics, the essays and interview in this volume offer original and timely approaches to thinking nature, sexuate difference, racism, and decoloniality. The collection draws on a range of sources, including Latin American Indigenous ontologies and philosophers such as Henri Bergson, Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, Immanuel Kant, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Charles Mills, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. The contributors think embodiment and life by bringing continental philosophy into generative dialogue with fields including plant studies, animal studies, decoloniality, feminist theory, philosophy of race, and law. Affirming the importance of interdisciplinarity, Philosophies of Difference contributes to a creative and critical intervention into established norms, limits, and categories. Invoking a conception of difference as both constitutive and generative, this collection offers new and important insights into how a rethinking of difference may ground new and more ethical modes of being and being-with. Philosophies of Difference unearths the constructive possibilities of difference for an ethics of relationality, and for elaborating non-anthropocentric sociality. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in Australian Feminist Law Journal.




Globalization and Sustainability - Ecological, Social and Cultural Perspectives


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This book, Globalization and Sustainability - Ecological, Social and Cultural Perspectives, gives an interesting overview of the frontiers of scientific research in this practically important and scientifically interesting applied ecological research area. It offers chapters about ecological, economic, cultural, and sociological aspects of this area from theoretical and practical viewpoints. I am sure that this book will be very useful for everybody—researchers, teachers, students, or others interested in the field—who would like to get some insight into this part of the complex phenomena of global sustainability.







Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World


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Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World presents a series of global case studies that examine how different Indigenous groups are dealing with various water management challenges and finding creative and culturally specific ways of developing solutions to these challenges. With contributions from Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics, scientists, and water management experts, this volume provides an overview of key water management challenges specific to Indigenous peoples, proposes possible policy solutions both at the international and national levels, and outlines culturally relevant tools for assessing vulnerability and building capacity. In recent decades, global climate change (particularly drought) has brought about additional water management challenges, especially in drought-prone regions where increasing average temperatures and diminishing precipitation are leading to water crises. Because their livelihoods are often dependent on the land and water, Indigenous groups native to those regions have direct insights into the localized impacts of global environmental change, and are increasingly developing their own adaptation and mitigation strategies and solutions based on local Indigenous knowledge (IK). Many Indigenous groups around the globe are also faced with mounting pressure from extractive industries like mining and forestry, which further threaten their water resources. The various cases presented in Indigenous Water and Drought Management in a Changing World provide much-needed insights into the particular issues faced by Indigenous peoples in preserving their water resources, as well as actionable information that can inform future scientific research and policymaking aimed at developing more integrated, region-specific, and culturally relevant solutions to these critical challenges. - Includes diverse case studies from around the world - Provides cutting-edge perspectives about Indigenous peoples' water management issues and IK-based solutions - Presents maps for most case studies along with a summary box to conclude each chapter




Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon


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Extending law beyond the human, the book probes the conceptual openings, methodological challenges and ethical conundrums of law in a time of deep socio-ecological disturbances and transitions. How do we learn and practice law across epistemic and ontological difference? What sort of methodologies do we need? In what sense does conjuring other-than-human beings as sentient, cognitive and social agents— rather than mere recipients of state-sanctioned rights—transform what we mean by “law” and “rights of nature”? Legal institutions exclusively focused on human perspectives seem insufficiently capable of addressing current socio-ecological challenges in Latin America and beyond. In response, this book strives to integrate other-than-human beings within legal thinking and decision-making protocols. Weaving together various fields of knowledge and world-making practices that include—but are not limited to—Indigenous legal traditions, Earth Law and multispecies ethnography, Law, Humans and Plants focuses on the entanglement of law, ecology and Indigenous cosmologies in Southern Colombia. In so doing, it articulates a general postanthropocentric legal theory which is proposed, a tool to address socioecological challenges such as climate change and bio-cultural loss. This book will be of interest to scholars and students in the disciplines of environmental law, Earth Law and ecological law, legal theory and critical legal studies as well as others working in the in the fields of Indigenous studies, environmental humanities, legal anthropology and sustainability and climate change justice.




Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism


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Climate change is causing traditional political and legal concepts to be revisited. The emergence of a global polity through physical, economic and social interaction demands global responses which should be founded upon new principles and which cannot simply be modelled on traditional constitutionalism centred on the nation-state. This Research Handbook explores how to build this climate constitutionalism at a global level, starting from the narrative of Anthropocene and its implications for law. It provides a critical approach to global environmental constitutionalism, analysing the problems of sustainability and global equity which are entwined with the causes and consequences of climate change. The Handbook explores how to develop constitutional discourses and strategies to address these issues, and thereby tackle the negative effects of climate change whilst also advancing a more sustainable, equitable and responsible global society.




Global Environmental Constitutionalism


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Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.