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Promoting Human Attachment to Place in Ecological Law

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Contemporary law, including environmental law, is built on worldviews and moral philosophies that encourage and sanction detachment of people from place. As ecological law matures, it must embody principles for re-embedding people in the places that nourish them and for constraining or abolishing remote decisions and policies made without intimate connection to, concern about and knowledge of the local people and places affected. Time-tested Indigenous worldviews and ways of life, as well as principles of eco-cultural restoration, provide insights on how to promote attachment to place in the law.

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  1. Concordia University, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Geoffrey Garver

  2. McGill University, Economics for the Anthropocene/Leadership for the Ecozoic Partnership, Law and Governance Research Initiative, Montreal, QC, Canada

    Geoffrey Garver

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  1. University of Windsor, Maple, ON, Canada

    Laura Westra

  2. Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Klaus Bosselmann

  3. Faculty of Law, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium

    Matteo Fermeglia

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Garver, G. (2020). Promoting Human Attachment to Place in Ecological Law. In: Westra, L., Bosselmann, K., Fermeglia, M. (eds) Ecological Integrity in Science and Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46259-8_11

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