Global environmental constitutionalism in the anthropocene / Louis J Kotze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kotzé, Louis J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Constitutional law.

Environmental law, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is persuasive evidence suggesting we are on the brink of human-induced ecological disaster that could change life on Earth as we know it. There is also a general consensus among scientists about the pace and extent of global ecological decay, including a realisation that humans are central to causing the global socio-ecological crisis. This new epoch has been called the Anthropocene. Considering the many benefits that constitutional environmental protection holds out in domestic legal orders, it is likely that a constitutionalised form of global environmental law and governance would be better able to counter the myriad exigencies of the Anthropocene. This book seeks to answer this central question: from the perspective of the Anthropocene, what is environmental constitutionalism and how could it be extrapolated to formulate a global framework? In answering this question, this book offers the first systematic conceptual framework for global environmental constitutionalism in the epoch of the Anthropocene

Contents:

1. Introduction

I. Human Domination

2. Law and the Anthropocene's Global

3. Constitutionalism

4. Global Aspects of Constitutionalism

5. The Fundamentals of Environmental Constitutionalism

6. The Prospects of Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene

7. A Vision of Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene

8. Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781509907601

1509907602

9781509907595

1509907599

9781509907618

1509907610

OCLC:

948670632