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Contents
Part I Ecological Integrity: Climate Change and Water Issues
Lessons Learned from IPCC’s Underestimation
of Climate Change Impacts About the Need for a Precautionary
Climate Change Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Donald A. Brown
Animal Based Industries and Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Virginia Zambrano
Climate Science Before the Courts: Turning the Tide
in Climate Change Litigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Matteo Fermeglia
‘Thieves, Shady Deals and Murder’: Water Theft, Buy-Backs
and Fish Kills in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Janice Gray
Refugees at Sea in a Hostile World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Joseph W. Dellapenna
Part II Public Health and Ecointegrity
Using Science and Law to Promote Humans’ Biological Integrity . . . . . . 65
Carl F. Cranor
Epidemiology and Public Health Under Siege: In Whose
Best Interests? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Colin L. Soskolne
Saving Species, Healthy Humanity: The Key Role of Women in
Ecological Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Shauna M. Lange