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Book SynopsisThis handbook explores the dynamic new field of Environmental Restorative Justice. Authors from diverse disciplines discuss how principles and practices of restorative justice can be used to address the threats and harms facing the environment today. The book covers a wide variety of subjects, from theoretical discussions about how to incorporate the voice of future generations, nature, and more-than-human animals and plants in processes of justice and repair, through to detailed descriptions of actual practices of Environmental Restorative Justice. The case studies explored in the volume are situated in a wide range of countries and in the context of varied forms of environmental harm – from small local pollution incidents, to endemic ongoing issues such as wildlife poaching, to cataclysmic environmental catastrophes resulting in cascades of harm to entire ecosystems. Throughout, it reveals how the relational and caring character of a restorative ethos can be conducive to finding solutions to problems through sharing stories, listening, healing, and holding people and organisations accountable for prevention and repairing of harm. It speaks to scholars in Criminology, Sociology, Law, and Environmental Justice and to practitioners, policy-makers, think-tanks and activists interested in the environment.
Table of Contents1. Environmental Restorative Justice: An introduction and an invitationMiranda Forsyth, Brunilda Pali, Felicity Tepper
PART 1. THEORETICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
2. Restorative justice, repairing the harm and environmental outcomesRob White
3. Restorative justice and environmental criminal law: A virtuous interplay Chiara Perini
4. Restorative justice and Earth jurisprudence Hercules Wessels and Femke Wijdekop
5. Nature’s rights and developing remedies: Enabling substantive and restorative relief in civil litigationHercules Wessels
6. Earth trusteeship and the sovereign state Klaus Bosselmann
7. Turning up the restorative dial in environmental regulation with an Adaptive Learning LoopMiranda Forsyth
8. Participatory governance and restorative justice: What potential blending in environmental policymaking? Cristina Vasilescu
9. Climate reparations, compensation, and intergenerational restorative justiceBenjamin Almassi
10. Meeting on thin ice: The potential for restorative climate justice in de-glaciating environmentsTanya Jones
11. Environmental restorative justice in transitional settings Rachel Killean
12. The importance of environmental restorative justice for the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021- 2030)Felicity Tepper
PART 2. APPLICATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
13. Restorative justice for illegal harms against animals: A potential answer full of interrogationsGema Varona
14. Towards environmental restorative justice in South Africa: How to understand and address wildlife offencesAshleigh Dore, Annette Hübschle and Mike Batley
15. Exploring environmental restorative philosophy for victims: The pollution and life-world in Minamata, JapanOrika Komatsubara
16. The art of repair: Restorative responses to environmental harm and ecocideBrunilda Pali, Maria Lucia Cruz Correia, Marine Calmet, Vinny Jones, Lode Vranken, Margarida Mendes, Evanne Nowak, Mark Požlep
17. Harm to knowledge: Criminalising environmental movements speaking up against megaprojectsAnna Di Ronco and Xenia Chiaramonte
18. Looking for the restoration in restorative justice’s response to civil disobedienceRachel Jolly, Rachel Gehman and Gale Burford
19. Environmental restorative justice in the Philippines: The innovations and unfinished business in waterways rehabilitationJennifer Marie S. Amparo, Ana Christina M. Bibal, Deborah Cleland, Ma. Catriona E. Devanadera, Aaron M. Lecciones, Maria Emilinda T. Mendoza, and Emerson M. Sanchez
20. Restoring justice and environmental knowledge in Sámi reindeer husbandry?Jan Erik Henriksen and Ida Hydle
21. Restor(y)ing the past to envision an ‘other’ future: A decolonial environmental restorative justice perspectiveIokiñe Rodriguez
22. Socio-environmental harms in Chile under the restorative justice lens: The role of the state Liliana Guerra, Felipe Martinez, and Daniela Bolívar
23. Restorative justice conferencing in a New Zealand environmental offending context: Two modelsMark Hamilton
24. Comparing institutional responses to the mining tailings dams collapses in Mariana and Brumadinho (Brazil) from an environmental restorative justice perspectiveCarlos Frederico Braga da Silva
25. Restorative environmental justice with transnational corporationsMartin Wright and Ulrike Tabbert
26. Environmental restorative justice: Activating synergiesIvo Aertsen
