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New book by CHN Senior Fellow J. Ronald Engel presented at the Hague before Queen Beatrix

July 23rd, 2010

The book being presented to Queen Beatrix by President of KIT Publishers, Jan Donner

The book being presented to Queen Beatrix by President of KIT Publishers, Jan Donner

The Earth Charter: A Framework for Global Governance, edited by Center for Humans and Nature Senior Fellow J. Ronald Engel and Klaus Bosselmann, was presented to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands at an event in June at the Hague, honoring the 10th anniversary of the Earth Charter. The book will be available in September 2010 from KIT publishers.

From the Earth Charter announcement, “This book examines some key features of international environmental law such as state sovereignty, global governance, sustainable development and the precautionary principle. With a focus on current failures and shortcomings, the text analyzes The Earth Charter’s potential to provide a legal framework for future global governance.”

The genesis of this publication was an LLM course, Law, Ethics and Governance for Sustainability, taught by Professors Engel and Bosselmann at the University of Auckland School of Law, with the assistance of CHN Global Director Kathryn Kintzele as a Visiting Fellow of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law. The book includes several articles from students in this course.

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J. Ronald Engel, CHN Senior Fellow, Co-Edits New Book on International Law

April 15th, 2010

J. Ron Engel, CHN Senior Fellow, in collaboration with Laura Westra and Klaus Bosselmann,  has co-edited a new book published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Democracy, Ecological Integrity and International Law. For further information and to order online click here.

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Presentation by Ron Engel to World Soil Forum is Published

July 4th, 2009

CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel’s keynote presentation at the World Soil Forum 2007 in Iceland has been published. See J. Ronald Engel, “Our Covenant with Earth: The Contribution of Soil Ethics to Our Planetary Future.” In Soils, Society and Global Change: Proceedings of an International Forum, 31 August – 4 September 2007, Selfoss, Iceland Edited by Harriet Bigas, Gudmundur Ingi Gudbrandsson and Andres Arnalds. United Nations University, 2009.

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CHN Senior Fellow Delivers Paper at Global Ecological Integrity Group Conference

June 25th, 2009

Ron Engel, CHN Senior Fellow, delivered a paper (read in abstentia by Professor Klaus Bosselmann) at the opening session of the Global Ecological Integrity Group conference, “State Sovereignty, International Law and Ecological Integrity,” in Firenze, Italy. Ron’s paper was titled “Contesting Democracy: Thin versus Thick Interpretations of the Democratic Ideal.” Engel serves on the steering committee for the Global Ecological Integrity Group. Engel and Professors Westra and Bosselmann are editing the proceedings of the conference for publication.

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CHN Colleague Named Deputy Chair of the Ethics Specialist Group of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law

Global Program, The Biosphere Ethics Initiative

June 15th, 2009

kintzele_gcg 2009Kathryn Kintzele was recently appointed as Deputy Chair of the Ethics Specialist Group (ESG) of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. Katy has been active with the ESG since she joined CHN in 2005, alongside founder and colleague Ron Engel and current chair Klaus Bosselmann. Dr. Engel founded the Ethics Working Group in 1984 as an intercommissional working group to advise the Director General of IUCN on how IUCN can play a more effective role in promoting the ethical dimensions of the World Conservation Strategy. Although it is now housed within the Commission on Environmental Law, the ESG continues its cross-disciplinary projects in governance, democracy and biosphere ethics. With CHN, Katy also serves as one of four Co-chairs of the Biosphere Ethics Initiative, a major initiative under the ESG working to create a code of ethics for biodiversity conservation.

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CHN’s Ron Engel Gives Lecture on Indiana Dunes to Nelson Institute Faculty and Students

May 20th, 2009

Ron Engel, CHN Senior Fellow, gave a lecture at the headquarters of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore on the ecological, political, ethical, and religious significance of the century long struggle to preserve the Indiana Dunes to a group of thirty faculty and students from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Affairs at the University of Wisconsin, led by Professors William Cronon and Gregg Mitmann.

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Ron Engel is Keynote Speaker at Conference in New Zealand

April 25th, 2009

Ron at conference_web

Ron Engel, CHN Senior Fellow, was a keynote speaker at a conference celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Center for Environmental Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The Conference was devoted to the subject of “Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges” and Ron’s presentation was titled “Property: Faustian Pact or New Covenant with Earth?” Judge Christopher Weeramantry (former Vice President of the International Court of Justice), and Professor Eric Freyfogle (Max L. Rowe Professor of Law, University of Illinois) were fellow keynote speakers.

While in Auckland Engel also taught a course on “Law, ethics and governance for sustainability” in the master’s program of the University of Auckland School of Law, the first course in the program to base a course in international environmental law on ethics. A 600 page casebook of selected readings was prepared for this course, which Engel hopes to make available to other educators.

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Book Announcement – Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges and Successes

January 1st, 2009

Co-authored by CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel, Governance for Sustainability – Issues, Challenges and Successes is the latest addition to the IUCN Environment Policy and Law Series. This book makes an important contribution to the on-going discussions on environmental governance, in particular by providing a thoughtful consideration of concepts that are critical to our understanding of how citizens in diverse societies are creatively using the law to advance the protection and restoration for ecological integrity and social justice. A range of case studies are presented, which share experiences of people and communities as they address environmental issues and demonstrate a number of different governance models. It invites all of us engaged in environmental issues to begin a renewed dialogue on the issue of governance for sustainability in order to seek real solutions on the ground (see http://www.iucn.org). CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele contributed the Recommended Readings for the book.

Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel and Prue Taylor. Governance for Sustainability–Issues, Challenges and Successes. Bonn, Germany: IUCN–The World Conservation Union, Environmental Law and Policy Series Volume 70, 2008. 250 pages. Available at http://www.earthprint.com/productfocus.php?id=IUCN2281.

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CHN Staff Invited to the University of Auckland School of Law for Course and Conference

November 20th, 2008

CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel has been invited to be a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland School of Law for the April 2009 intensive course, “Law, Ethics and Governance for Sustainability.” He will lead the course with School of Law Professor and New Zealand Center for Environmental Law (NZCEL) Director, Klaus Bosselmann. Dr. Engel will also be a Keynote Speaker at the NZCEL conference, Property Rights and Sustainability: the evolution of property rights to meet the challenges of sustainability. Other keynote speakers include Judge Christopher Weeramantry (Sri Lanka) and Professor Eric Freyfogle (USA). CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele has been offered a Visiting Fellowship and will assist in the course, as well as participate in the conference.
(http://www.nzcel.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/law/about/assns/nzcel/nzcel.cfm)

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CHN joins International Meeting at Humboldt University to discuss Human Existence and Ecological Integrity

July 20th, 2008

CHN Senior Fellow Ron Engel, and CHN colleague Kathryn Kintzele, participated in the Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) 2008 annual conference meeting at the historic Humboldt University, Berlin. The Global Ecological Integrity Group (GEIG) includes more than 250 scholars and independent researchers worldwide, from diverse disciplines, including ecology, biology, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, ecological economics and international law. The theme of the conference this year was “Reconciling Human Existence and Ecological Integrity.” Dr. Kintzele presented her in-process work, “Is Nature Alive in International Law? A Legal, Scientific and Philosophical Critique of the Language Used to Describe Natural Values in International Law.” Dr. Engel had the privilege of joining Bill Rees, Beata Weber (a former member of the European Parliament and the current mayor of Heidelberg) and Heinrich Fuchs (a Green party member of the German parliament and the President of the Boll Foundation) in addressing several hundred Berliners on “Is the World at a Tipping Point?” In 2009, CHN will join the group at the Institute of European Universities in Florence, Italy to discuss State Sovereignty, International Law and Ecological Integrity, and to convene a special session on international protected areas and sacred spaces.

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