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Jennings, Bruce --- "Governing ecological governance in the Anthropocene: a new covenant of eco-communitarianism" [2019] ELECD 2182; in Burdon, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Engel, Kirsten (eds), "The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 126

Book Title: The Crisis in Global Ethics and the Future of Global Governance

Editor(s): Burdon, Peter; Bosselmann, Klaus; Engel, Kirsten

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: Governing ecological governance in the Anthropocene: a new covenant of eco-communitarianism

Author(s): Jennings, Bruce

Number of pages: 17

Abstract/Description:

This chapter explores the potential for fashioning a more ecological and relational political morality for Earth governance. It offers one reading of a political morality for a new ecological governance: a transformational governance that manifests a covenantal understanding of the human condition within a planetary web of life. Next, it distinguishes between governance of ecosystems and ecological governance; and finally, it considers how to characterize the moral imagination required to sustain this vision of ecological governance by exploring the concept of ‘covenant’ and how it contrasts with the idea of ‘contract’.