Environmental law and governance for the anthropocene / edited by Louis Kotzé.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kotzé, Louis J., editor.

Series:

Hart studies in competition law.

Hart studies in competition law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Environmental law, International.

Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Philosophical anthropology.

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance. This volume sets out to address the currently under-theorised legal and consequent governance challenges presented by the emergence of the Anthropocene as a possible new geological epoch. While the epoch has yet to be formally confirmed, the trope and discourse of the Anthropocene undoubtedly already confront law and governance scholars with a unique challenge concerning the need to question, and ultimately re-imagine, environmental law and governance interventions in the light of a new socio-ecological situation, the signs of which are increasingly apparent and urgent. This volume does not aspire to offer a univocal response to Anthropocene exigencies and phenomena. Any such attempt is, in any case, unlikely to do justice to the multiple implications and characteristics of Anthropocene forebodings. What it does is to invite an unrivalled group of leading law and governance scholars to reflect upon the Anthropocene and the implications of its discursive formation in an attempt to trace some initial, often radical, future-facing and imaginative implications for environmental law and governance

Contents:

The role of sustainable development and the associated principles of environmental law and governance in the anthropocene

Jonathan Verschuuren

Reimagining international environmental law in the anthropocene

Tim Stephens

Doing time : the temporalities of environmental law

Benjamin Richardson

Anthropocene, capitalocene, chthulucene? : re-encountering the subject of environmental law with Haraway and new materialism

Anna Grear

Critical environmental law and the double register of the anthropocene : a biopolitical reading

Vito De Lucia

Critical environmental law

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Materiality and the ontological turn in the anthropocene : establishing a dialogue between law, anthropology, and eco-philosophy

Saskia Vermeylen

Global environmental governance in the anthropocene : setting and achieving global goals

Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy

Global environmental constitutionalism in the anthropocene

Louis Kotz

Global justice in the anthropocene

Carmen Gonzalez

The imperative of ecological integrity : conceptualising a fundamental legal norm for a new world system in the anthropocene

Klaus Bosselmann

Of human responsibility : considering the human

environment relationship and ecosystems in the anthropocene

Karen Morrow

The corporation and the anthropocene

Sally Wheeler

Judging the anthropocene : transformative adjudication in the Anthropocene Epoch

Lynda Collins

The emergence of transnational environmental law in the anthropocene

Jolene Lin

The end of European Union environmental law : an environmental programme for the anthropocene

Han Somsen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781509906574

1509906576

9781509906543

1509906541

OCLC:

986243322