ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance
and legal frameworks. The cross-currents of persisting, established
worldviews, knowledge systems, institutions, law and forms of governance
are now at odds with future-facing innovations designed to help
societies transition to both low-carbon economies and social equity.
This book explores the ways in which we can move to new governance and
legal structures that more effectively reflect our changed relationship
with the Earth in the Anthropocene.
The book is written by a group of eminent scholars and leading experts
from a diverse range of backgrounds, all of whom bring new knowledge and
analysis from across oceanic and continental regions. Many are from the
discipline of law, whilst others bring expertise on indigenous
knowledge, climate, water, governance and philosophy to engage with law.
Contributors include His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Efi,
Head of State of Samoa, Judge Sir E. Taikakurei Durie, Dame Anne
Salmond, Pierre Calame and Adrian Macey. A number of scenarios are
presented throughout the book for the realignment of global and local
law to institutionalise responsibility for social, environmental and
earth-centered equity.
