Law and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations contains a series of theore­tical  and  applied  perspectives  on  the  connection  between  law  and  ecology, which  together offer  a  radical  and  socially  responsive  foundation  for environ­mental  law.  While  its  legal  corpus  grows  daily,  environmental  law  has  not enjoyed  the  kind  of  jurisprudential  underpinning  generally  found  in  other branches  of  law.  This  book  forges  a  new  ecological  jurisprudential  founda­tion  for  environmental  law  –  where  ‘ecological’  is  understood  both  in  the narrow sense of an ecosystemic  perspective on law and in the broad sense of critical  self-reflection  of  the  mechanisms  of  environmental  law  as  they  oper­ate  in  a  context  where  boundaries  between  the  human  and  the  non-human are  collapsing,  and  where  the  traditional  distinction  between  ecocentrism and  anthropocentrism  is  recast.  Addressing  current  debates  –  including  the intellectual property of bioresources; the protection of biodiversity in view of tribal  land  demands;  the  ethics  of  genetically  modified  organisms;  the  rede­finition  of  the  ‘human’ through  feminist  and  technological  research;  the  spa­tial/geographical boundaries of environmental jurisdiction; and the postcolonial  geographies  of  pollution  –  Law  and  Ecology  redefines  the  way environmental  law  is  perceived,  theorised  and  applied.  It  also  constitutes  a radical  challenge  to  the  traditionally  human-centred  frameworks  and  con­cerns  of  legal  theory.