Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on the Role of Law in Times of Planetary Change
Redaktion: Webster, Emily; Mai, Laura

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume invites reflection on the meaning and role of law in light of changing planetary realties. Taking the concept of the Anthropocene as a starting point, the contributions to this book address emerging legal issues from a transnational environmental law perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000373004
• Artikelnr.: 61307350

Autorenporträt

Emily Webster is Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute and member of the Climate Law & Governance Centre at King's College London. Her doctoral research is concerned with the role and influence of transnational climate change law and governance upon the state in facilitating the energy transition. Laura Mai is Senior Research Fellow at the Transnational Law Institute and member of the Climate Law & Governance Centre at King's College London. Laura's doctoral research explores the role of local governments and financial institutions in implementing the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Transnational environmental law in the Anthropocene
Emily Webster and Laura Mai
1. Two layers of self-regulation
J. E. Viñuales
2. Ecological law in the Anthropocene
Peter D Burdon
3. Environmental trusteeship and state sovereignty: can they be reconciled?
Klaus Bosselmann
4. Restoration and cooperation for flourishing socio-ecological landscapes
Afshin Akhtar-Khavari
5. Earth system law for the Anthropocene: rethinking environmental law
alongside the Earth system metaphor
Louis J. Kotzé
6. (Transnational) law for the Anthropocene: revisiting Jessup's move from
'what?' to 'how?'
Laura Mai
7. Urgent agenda: how climate litigation builds transnational narratives
Phillip Paiement
8. Litigation and regulatory governance in the age of the Anthropocene: the
case of fracking in the Karoo
Melanie Murcott and Emily Webster
9. The myth of mermaids and stewardship of the seas
Emily Barritt
10. To the Anthropocene and beyond: the responsibility of law in decimating
and protecting marine life
Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny
11. Regimes of waste (im)perceptibility in the life cycle of metal
Tina Beigi and Michael Hennessy Picard