The Great Adaptation : Technique, Environment, and the Law on the Globe / Guilherme Pratti.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pratti, Guilherme, author.

Contributor:

• Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

• Elgar studies in legal theory.
• Elgar Studies in Legal Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Climate change adaptation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

This timely book puts forward a novel understanding of the ongoing relationship between the law, regulation, technology and science with the goal of helping to mitigate and adapt to the severe environmental and societal impacts of climate change.

Contents:

• Contents: Preface
• 1. Introducing the question concerning law and technique: An unexpected conversation
• Part I: The law: technique or technology?
• 2. Philosophy of technique: The constitutive role of law within the modern technique phenomenon
• 3. Law, technique and technology
• Part II: Twenty-first century's challenge: the nexus law-technique-nature
• 4. The great acceleration: Technique, globalisation, and climate change
• 5. The role of law and the green deal's total mobilisation
• Part III: An ever-increasing technical phenomenon: Technique, environment, and law in an interconnected world
• 6. Law's overarching touch: Heights and depths
• 7. Ingraining reality in law: A climate-changing tempo
• 8. Constituting the ongoing quest for adaptation: Concluding remarks
• References.

Notes:

• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Pratti, Guilherme The Great Adaptation

ISBN:

9781035345199