Research handbook on law, governance and planetary boundaries edited by Duncan French, Louis Kotze

Format:

Book

Contributor:

French, Duncan.

Kotzé, Louis J.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in environmental law.

Research Handbooks in Environmental Law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Planetary systems.

Boundaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton Edward Elgar Publishing 2021

Summary:

This comprehensive Research Handbook is the first study to link law and Earth system science through the epistemic lens of the planetary boundaries framework. It critically examines the legal and governance aspects of the framework, considering not only each planetary boundary, but also a range of systemic issues, including the ability of law to keep us within the planetary boundaries' safe operating space.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

1. Staying within the planet's 'safe operating space'? Law and the planetary boundaries

PART I LEGAL, ETHICAL AND GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS OF THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES

2. Exploring the planetary boundaries and environmental law: historical development, interactions and synergies

3. Governing the complexity of planetary boundaries: a state-of-the-art analysis of social science scholarship

4. Planetary boundaries, planetary ethics and climate justice in the Anthropocene

5. Science, law and planetary uncertainty

6. Planetary boundaries intra muros: cities and the Anthropocene

PART II INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES

7. Planetary boundaries and regime interaction in international law

8. Changing role of law-making in responding to planetary boundaries?

9. International law, planetary boundaries and teleconnections

10. Compliance with planetary boundaries in international law

11. Exploring the planetary boundaries' wasteland: international law and the advent of the Molysmocene

PART III PLANETARY BOUNDARIES AND THE LAW

12. Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinctions)

13. Climate change

14. Stratospheric ozone depletion

15. Atmospheric aerosol loading

16. Ocean acidification

17. Nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the biosphere and oceans

18. Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle

19. Land system change

20. Chemical pollution (and the release of novel entities)

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-78990-274-6

OCLC:

1201301341