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The implications for law of this spiritual transformation and reconnection are
also wondrous. A strong secondary effect of the detachment of place and instrumentalization of nature and non-human life that permeates contemporary law is detachment of people from the law itself (Capra and Mattei 2015). In the modern globalized
world, law is typically seen as developed, administered and imposed from afar by
professional specialists. Ideally, ecological law, like the sui generis systems of
place-based rules, customs and traditions of well-governed common pool resources
(Ostrom 1990), will be an integral and cherished part of the communities and places
that develop and apply it.
References
Agrawal A (2001) Common property institutions and sustainable governance of resources. World
Dev 29(10):1649–1672
Armstrong K (1994) A history of god: the 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Ballantine Books, New York
Behr H (2010) A history of international political theory. Palgrave MacMillan, New York
Brown PG, Garver G (2009) Right relationship: building a whole earth economy. Berrett-Koehler,
San Francisco
Capra F, Mattei U (2015) The ecology of law: toward a legal system in tune with nature and community. Berrett Koehler, San Francisco
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation v. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. 2017. Supreme Court of Canada,
2017 SCC 41
Consensys Space. 2019. https://consensys.space
Fischer-Kowalski M, Haberl H (1997) Tons, joules, and money: modes of production and their
sustainability problems. Soc Nat Resour 10(1):61–85
Francis (2015) Laudato Si’. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC
Garver G (2013) The rule of ecological law: the legal complement to degrowth economics.
Sustainability 5(1):316–337
Garver G (2019) A systems-based tool for transitioning to law for a mutually enhancing humanearth relationship. Ecol Econ 157:165–174
Gunderson LH, Holling CS (eds) (2002) Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and
natural systems. Island Press, Washington DC
Hambrecht G (2015) The First European Colonization of the North Atlantic. Chapter 9. In: Leone
MP, Knauf JE (eds) Historical archaeologies of capitalism, 2nd edn. Springer, New York
Hamer A (2017) Asteroid mining? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. https://curiosity.com/topics/
asteroid-mining-its-not-as-crazy-as-it-sounds-curiosity/
Huntley B, Daniell JRG, Allen JRM (1997) Scottish vegetation history: the Highlands. Bot J Scotl
49(2):163–175
Kallis G (2018) Degrowth. Agenda Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK
Kimmerer RW (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkwood Editions, Minneapolis
Kornfeld IE (2009) Mesopotamia: a history of water and law. Chapter 3. In: Dellapenna J, Gupta J
(eds) The evolution of law and politics of water. Springer, New York
Korten DC (2009) Agenda for a new economy. Berrett Koehler, San Francisco
Lazarus R (2012) The National Environmental Policy Act in the U.S. Supreme Court: a reappraisal
and a peek behind the curtains. Georgetown Law J 100:1507–1586
Merchant C (2003) Reinventing Eden: the fate of nature in western culture. Routledge, New York
Promoting Human Attachment to Place in Ecological Law
The implications for law of this spiritual transformation and reconnection are
also wondrous. A strong secondary effect of the detachment of place and instrumentalization of nature and non-human life that permeates contemporary law is detachment of people from the law itself (Capra and Mattei 2015). In the modern globalized
world, law is typically seen as developed, administered and imposed from afar by
professional specialists. Ideally, ecological law, like the sui generis systems of
place-based rules, customs and traditions of well-governed common pool resources
(Ostrom 1990), will be an integral and cherished part of the communities and places
that develop and apply it.
References
Agrawal A (2001) Common property institutions and sustainable governance of resources. World
Dev 29(10):1649–1672
Armstrong K (1994) A history of god: the 4,000-year quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Ballantine Books, New York
Behr H (2010) A history of international political theory. Palgrave MacMillan, New York
Brown PG, Garver G (2009) Right relationship: building a whole earth economy. Berrett-Koehler,
San Francisco
Capra F, Mattei U (2015) The ecology of law: toward a legal system in tune with nature and community. Berrett Koehler, San Francisco
Chippewas of the Thames First Nation v. Enbridge Pipelines Inc. 2017. Supreme Court of Canada,
2017 SCC 41
Consensys Space. 2019. https://consensys.space
Fischer-Kowalski M, Haberl H (1997) Tons, joules, and money: modes of production and their
sustainability problems. Soc Nat Resour 10(1):61–85
Francis (2015) Laudato Si’. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, DC
Garver G (2013) The rule of ecological law: the legal complement to degrowth economics.
Sustainability 5(1):316–337
Garver G (2019) A systems-based tool for transitioning to law for a mutually enhancing humanearth relationship. Ecol Econ 157:165–174
Gunderson LH, Holling CS (eds) (2002) Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and
natural systems. Island Press, Washington DC
Hambrecht G (2015) The First European Colonization of the North Atlantic. Chapter 9. In: Leone
MP, Knauf JE (eds) Historical archaeologies of capitalism, 2nd edn. Springer, New York
Hamer A (2017) Asteroid mining? It’s not as crazy as it sounds. https://curiosity.com/topics/
asteroid-mining-its-not-as-crazy-as-it-sounds-curiosity/
Huntley B, Daniell JRG, Allen JRM (1997) Scottish vegetation history: the Highlands. Bot J Scotl
49(2):163–175
Kallis G (2018) Degrowth. Agenda Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK
Kimmerer RW (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkwood Editions, Minneapolis
Kornfeld IE (2009) Mesopotamia: a history of water and law. Chapter 3. In: Dellapenna J, Gupta J
(eds) The evolution of law and politics of water. Springer, New York
Korten DC (2009) Agenda for a new economy. Berrett Koehler, San Francisco
Lazarus R (2012) The National Environmental Policy Act in the U.S. Supreme Court: a reappraisal
and a peek behind the curtains. Georgetown Law J 100:1507–1586
Merchant C (2003) Reinventing Eden: the fate of nature in western culture. Routledge, New York
Promoting Human Attachment to Place in Ecological Law