Green Governance, Human Rights, and the Commons
*Book: Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Commons. By Weston H. Burns and David Bollier. Cambridge University Press, 2013
URL = http://www.commonslawproject.org
To be published. Shorter drfat essay: Regenerating the Human Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment in the Commons Renaissance pdf part one ; pdf part two
Contents
Chapter 1. Trends that Point Toward a New Synthesis
A. The Tragedy of the Market
B. New Governance Models on the Internet
C. Imagining New Types of Governance that Go Beyond Market and State
Chapter 2. The Human Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment
Chapter 3. The Quest for a New Rights-based Pathway
A. Intergenerational Environmental Rights
B. Nature’s Environmental Rights
C. Four Systemic Complications
Chapter 4. Making the Conceptual Transition to the New Paradigm
A. The Power of Human Rights
B. The Potential of Vernacular Law
C. The Necessity of Self-Organized Governance and Collaboration in Complex Adaptive Systems
Chapter 5. The Commons as a Model for Ecological Governance
A. What Is the Commons?
B. A Brief History of Commons Law and the Right to the Environment
C. Social Scientists Rediscover the Commons
Chapter 6. The Rise of the Commons Movement Globally
A. Salient Contemporary Commons
B. Tensions between Modern State Law and the Commons
Chapter 7. Imagining a New Architecture of Law and Policy to Support the Ecological Commons
A. Internal Governance Principles of Commons
B. Macro-Principles and Policies to Guide the State/Market in Supporting the Commons Sector
Chapter 8. Catalytic Strategies for Achieving Green Governance
A. Vernacular-Law Commons
B. “Private-law Work-arounds”
C. Localism and Municipal Law as a Vehicle for Protecting Commons
D. Federal and Provincial Governments as Supporters of Commons Formation and Expansion
E. Expand and Strengthen the Public Trust Doctrine
F. State Trustee Commons
G. Eco-digital Innovations: Crowdsourcing, Participatory Sensing, Wikis, and More
H. Establish Commons Trusts to Manage Common Assets and Distribute Revenues
I. State Chartering of New Types of Commons Trusts
J. New Types of Multilateral Frameworks that Can Manage Large-scale Common-pool Resources
Status Update
Weston Burns, May 24, 2012:
"David Bollier and I are delighted to be able to tell you that we will be sending our completed book manuscript (Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Commons) to Cambridge University Press (CUP) this coming Monday, May 28. To be published in early 2013, its Table of Contents will look something like the attached short version. However, we also attach an expanded longer version intended for you especially. As hopefully you will see, we have reorganized our old essay and added much to it. That is, we took very seriously your many insightful and helpful critiques. For which we thank you much again.
David and I are also pleased to report, as promised, that we now have a website for our Commons Law Project (CLP): http://www.commonslawproject.org. With CUP’s gracious permission, It includes the full text of the draft essay we discussed last October, plus sundry other items of cognate interest, among them our newly published article in the Spring | Summer 2012 issue of Kosmos (a kind of executive summary of our book)."