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Client Earth
Contributor(s): Thornton, James (Author), Goodman, Martin (Author)
ISBN: 1947534033     ISBN-13: 9781947534032
Publisher: Scribe Us
OUR PRICE:   $17.06  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
- Law | Environmental
- Science | Global Warming & Climate Change
Dewey: 344.046
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
 
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Publisher Description:

Planet Earth needs its own lawyer. James Thornton is that lawyer.

Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, environmental laws need to be enforceable and enforced. Step forward a fresh breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers. They provide new rules to legislatures, see that they are enforced, and keep us informed.

At the head of this new legal army stands James Thornton, who takes governments to court, and wins. And his client is the Earth.

With Client Earth, we travel from Alaska to China, from Poland to Ghana, to see how citizens can use public-interest law to protect their planet. 1970s America saw lawyers first band together to battle for the environment. This book tracks that phenomenon from its origins and out across the globe. Lawyers who take the Earth as their client are exceptional and inspirational. They give us back our hope.

Contributor Bio(s): Thornton, James: - James Thornton is the founding CEO of ClientEarth, a not-for-profit environmental-law organisation with offices in London, Brussels, and Warsaw. The New Statesman named James as one of ten people who could change the world. He is a member of the bars of New York, California, and the Supreme Court of the United States.Goodman, Martin: - Martin Goodman is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction. He holds the chair of Creative Writing at the University of Hull, where he is director of the Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing.