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The Earth on Trial examines the degree to which the law has accommodated an increasing understanding of the natural environment. Paul Kibel provides a clear assessment of the conceptual and practical changes needed to reconcile law to the limits of ecology. Kibel discusses many international environmental issues including Canadian logging and international law, the legacy of environmental law after the collapse of the USSR, the poison gas leak in Bhopa, India, the refoliation of Vietnam's forests since the war and marine turtle protection. The book acknowledges that a healthy environmental future depends not so much on our ability to alter nature to accommodate society, but on our ability to alter society to accommodate nature.

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Finally, a page-turner that makes international environmental law accessible. The Earth on Trial leads the reader toward nature-protecting strategies of growing significance <br>. <br>-Randall Hayes, Founder and President, Rainforest Action Network <br> At the heart of The Earth on Trial is the assertion that there is a slowbut epochal shift toward enforceable obligations at the international level. Kibel is an original voice and speaks powerfully to the cumulative nature of contemporary ecology, economics, and diplomacy. Michael Watts, Director, Institute of International Studies University of California-Berkeley. <br> Kibel has written a rich collection of informed reports from the front line of environmental law. The great strength of The Earth on Trial is its pointed interrogation of neo-liberalism and sovereignty as obstacles to more environmentally sustainable frameworks of law and governance. David Goodman, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz. <br>

Finally, a page-turner that makes international environmental law accessible. The Earth on Trial leads the reader toward nature-protecting strategies of growing significance . -Randall Hayes, Founder and President, Rainforest Action Network At the heart of The Earth on Trial is the assertion that there is a slowbut epochal shift toward enforceable obligations at the international level. Kibel is an original voice and speaks powerfully to the cumulative nature of contemporary ecology, economics, and diplomacy. Michael Watts, Director, Institute of International Studies University of California-Berkeley. Kibel has written a rich collection of informed reports from the front line of environmental law. The great strength of The Earth on Trial is its pointed interrogation of neo-liberalism and sovereignty as obstacles to more environmentally sustainable frameworks of law and governance. David Goodman, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Paul Stanton Kibel is an environmental lawyer based in San Francsico, and teaches at Golden Gate University School of Law and the Monterey Institute of International Studies. His articles have appeared in many publications, including In These Times, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, NYU Environmental Law Journal, and Georgetown International Environmental Law Review.

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