Environmental law and contrasting ideas of nature : a constructivist approach / edited by Keith H. Hirokawa, Albany Law School.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hirokawa, Keith H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law--United States--Philosophy.

Environmental law.

Human ecology.

Constructivism (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 343 pages : map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing that law has embedded discrete constructions of nature helps in understanding how humans value their relationship with nature. This book offers a scholarly examination of the manner in which nature is constructed through law, both in the "hard" sense of directly regulating human activities that impact nature, and in the "soft" manner in which law's ideas of nature influence and are influenced by behaviors, values, and priorities. Traditional accounts of the intersection between law and nature generally focus on environmental laws that protect wilderness. This book will build on the constructivist observation that when considered as a culturally contingent concept, "nature" is a self-perpetuating and self-reinforcing social creation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Constructing nature through law / Keith H. Hirokawa

Nature in a constructed world : grounding the constructivist method / Keith H. Hirokawa and Rik Scarce

An unnatural divide : how law obscures individual environmental harms / Katrina Fischer Kuh

Defining nature as a common pool resource / Jonathan Rosenbloom

Property constructs and nature's challenge to perpetuity / Jessica Owley

Perceiving change and knowing nature : shifting baselines and nature's resiliency / Robin Kundis Craig

Animals and law in the American city / Irus Braverman

Boundaries of nature and the American city / Stephen R. Miller

Constructing nature the radical way : extreme environmentalism and law / Rik Scarce

Wilderness imperatives and untrammeled nature / Sandra B. Zellmer

Native American values and laws of exclusion Catherine / Catherine Iorns Magallanes

Challenging what appears 'natural' : the environmental justice movement's impact on the environmental agenda / Shannon M. Roesler

The transformation of water / A. Dan Tarlock

Framing watersheds / Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold

The last, last frontier / Michael Burger.

ISBN:

9781107033474

1107033470

OCLC:

863044260

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