Environmental discourses in public and international law / edited by Brad Jessup and Kim Rubenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jessup, Brad, 1978- editor.

Rubenstein, Kim, editor.

Series:

Connecting international law with public law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law, International--Congresses.

Environmental law, International.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 536 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Environmental Discourses in Public & International Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This collection of essays examines the development and application of environmental laws and the relationship between public laws and international law. Notions of good governance, transparency and fairness in decision-making are analysed within the area of the law perceived as having the greatest potential to address today's global environmental concerns. International trends, such as free trade and environmental markets, are also observed to be infiltrating national laws. Together, the essays illustrate the idea that in the context of environmental problems being dynamic and environmental changes appearing suddenly, laws become difficult to design and effect. Typically, they are also devised within a conflicted setting. It is in this changeable and discordant context that environmental discourses such as precaution, justice, risk, equity, security, citizenship and markets contribute to legal responses, present legal opportunities or hinder progress.

Contents:

Introduction. Using discourse theory to untangle public and international environmental law / Brad Jessup and Kim Rubenstein

Justice for future generations : environment discourses, international law and climate change / Peter Lawrence

The journey of environmental justice through public and international law / Brad Jessup

The political discourse of land stewardship reframed as a statutory duty / Mark Shepheard and Paul Martin

Dephysicalisation and entitlement : legal and cultural discourses of place as property / Nicole Graham

Perspectives on discourse in international environmental law : expert knowledge and challenges to deliberative democracy / Jaye Ellis

Getting to yes : structuring and disciplining arguments for and against transgenic agricultural products in European Union authorisations / Bettina Lange

Nuclear narratives, environmental discourse and UK energy policy and legislation, 1970-2008 / Elizabeth Rough

International courts and sustainable development : using old tools to shape a new discourse / Tim Stephens

The discourse of environmental security in the ASEAN context / Kheng-Lian Koh

Public participation in transboundary environmental impact assessment : closing the gap between international and public law? / Simon Marsden

Climate change : limits discourses at the interface of international law and environmental law / Lee Godden

The national interest or good international citizenship? : Australia and its approach to international and public climate law / River Cordes-Holland

The Asia-Pacific partnership : a deepened market liberal model for the international climate regime? / Jeffrey Mcgee and Ros Taplin

Global gazing : viewing markets through the lens of emissions trading discourses / Sanja Bogojevic

Polar opposites : environmental discourses and management in Antarctica and the Arctic / Donald R. Rothwell

Heritage discourses / Ben Boer and Stefan Gruber

Environmental principles and social change in the ocean dumping regime : a case study of the disposal of carbon dioxide into the seabed / Afshin Akhtarkhavari

Environmental discourses in the ocean commons : the case of ocean fertilisation / Julia Mayo-Ramsay

Concluding remarks. Discourse versus strategy / Thomas Pogge.

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ISBN:

9781139094610

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