This book offers recent insights into some of the burning issues of our times: climate change, exposure to chemicals, refugee issues and the ecological harm that accompanies conflict situations. It brings together a group of pioneering scholars, mostly legal experts but also thinkers from various scientific disciplines, to discuss concerns from around the globe - from Australia and New Zealand, to Canada and the United States, European countries including Germany, Italy, Britain and the Czech Republic, as well as the African continent.

Part I: Ecological Integrity: Climate Change and Water Issues.- Lessons Learned from IPCC's Underestimation of Climate Change Impacts About the Need for a PrecautionaryClimate Change Science.- Animal Based Industries and Climate Change.- Climate Science Before the Courts: Turning the Tide in Climate Change Litigation.- 'Thieves, Shady Deals and Murder': Water Theft, Buy-Backs and Fish Kills in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia.- Refugees at Sea in a Hostile World.- Part II: Public Health and Ecointegrity.- Using Science and Law to Promote Humans' Biological Integrity.- Epidemiology and Public Health Under Siege: In Whose Best Interests?.- Saving Species, Healthy Humanity: The Key Role of Women in Ecological Integrity.- Part III: Ecological Integrity and State Obligations.- African Eco-Philosophy and Its Implications for Ecological Integrity in Africa.- State Global Responsibility for Environmental Crises: The Ethical and Legal Implications of a State's Failure to Protect Human Rights.- Promoting Human Attachment to Place in Ecological Law.- Protected Wilderness: Is It Still Possible?.- Quantum Mechanics and Law: What Does Quantum Mechanics Teach Us?.- Part IV: Ecological Integrity and the Role of Earth Science.- Evaluation of Ecological Integrity in Landscape Based on Remote Sensing Data.- Social and Economic Conditions for Wilderness Protection in Europe: Case of sumava National Park, Czech Republic.- Is it Possible to Maintain a Biodiversity of Natural Habitats Under Global Change and Increasing Landscape Exploitation?.- Agriculture in the European Union: Seven More Years of Environmental Austerity?.- Part V: Ecological Integrity and the Geopolitical Situation.- The Political Economy of Managing Without Growth.- Opportunity Within Failure: Can the Global Pact for the Environment Learn from Responsibility to Protect?.- The Role of Trusteeship in Earth Governance.- Environmental Damages and Armed Conflict.