The Earth on Trial - Environmental Law on the International Stage (Paperback, New)

This text examines the degree to which the law has accommodated an increased understanding of the natural environment. Paul Stanton Kibel provides a clear assessment of what conceptual and practical changes are needed to reconcile law to the limits of ecology. Kibel discusses many international environmental issues, such as Canadian logging and international law, the legacy of environmental law after the collapse of the USSR, and Vietnam's forests, as well as the environmental agenda in the US. By moving the debate between law and the environment beyond specialists, and towards a public forum, the text acknowledges that a healthy environmental future depends not so much on our ability to alter nature to accommodate society, as our ability to alter society to accommodate nature.