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Thought, law, rights and action in the age of environmental crisis / edited by Anna Grear, Evadne Grant ; contributors, David Bollier [and eleven others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Law and legislation.
- Climatic changes.
- Human rights.
- Human rights--Environmental aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the climate-pressed Anthropocene epoch, nothing could be more urgent than fresh engagements with the fractious relationships between 'humanity', law and the living order. This timely book intelligently combines theoretical reflections, doctrinal analyses and insights drawn from rights-based praxis to offer thoughtful - and at times provocative - engagements with the limitations of law as it faces the complexities of contemporary socio-ecological life-worlds in an age of climate crisis. Leading scholars in the field discuss, in four parts, Philosophical Investigations, Reconfiguring the Legal, Activism and Praxis, and Multi-level Reformulations, to offer imaginative intellectual engagements with a range of challenges vexing the human-environmental-legal 'interface'. Scholars and students of human rights and environmental law and practitioners in the field alike will find the book to be a timely and thoughtful engagement with urgent human dilemmas.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Table of cases""; ""Introduction: thought, law, rights and action in an age of environmental crisis - in search of better future histories*""; ""PART 1 Philosophical investigations""; ""1. Doubt and denial: epistemic responsibility meets climate change scepticism*""; ""2. Actors or spectators? Vulnerability and critical environmental law*""; ""3. Reflections on the relationship between environmental regulation, human rights and beyond - with Heidegger""; ""4. Radicalism and conservatism in environmental law""
- ""PART 2 Reconfiguring the legal""""5. Human rights and environment protection in India: the judicial journey from public interest litigation to the National Green Tribunal""; ""6. Re-imagining adjudication: human rights courts and the environment""; ""PART 3 Activism and praxis""; ""7. Human rights practice: a means to environmental ends?""; ""8. Schopenhauer's Mitleid, environmental outrage and human rights""; ""PART 4 Multilevel reformulations""; ""9. Reimagining ecological governance through human rights and a rediscovery of the Commons""
- ""10. Towards new legal futures? In search of renewing foundations""""Index""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78471-133-0
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