Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene

by Louis Kotzé (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509906567
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/15/2017
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Louis J Kotzé is Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Preface: Discomforting Conversations in the Anthropocene vii

Acknowledgements xvii

List of Contributors xxi

Part 1 Back to Basics: The Limits and Potential of Law and Governance in the Anthropocene

1 The Role of Sustainable Development and the Associated Principles of Environmental Law and Governance in the Anthropocene Jonathan Verschuuren 3

2 Reimagining International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene Tim Stephens 31

3 Doing Time-The Temporalities of Environmental Law Benjamin J Richardson 55

Part 2 Radical Ontologies and Epistemologies for the Anthropocene

4 'Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene': Re-encountering Environmental Law and its 'Subject' with Haraway and New Materialism Anna Grear 77

5 Critical Environmental Law and the Double Register of the Anthropocene: A Biopolitical Reading Vito De Lucia 97

6 Critical Environmental Law in the Anthropocene Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos 117

7 Materiality and the Ontological Turn in the Anthropocene: Establishing a Dialogue between Law, Anthropology and Eco-Philosophy Saskia Vermeylen 137

Part 3 Planetary Stewardship and Global justice Reimagined

8 Global Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene: Setting and Achieving Global Goals Maria Ivanovo Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy 165

9 Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene Louis J Kotzé 189

10 Global Justice in the Anthropocene Carmen G Gonzalez 219

11 The Imperative of Ecological Integrity: Conceptualising a Fundamental Legal Norm for a New 'World System' in the Anthropocene Klaus Bosselmann 241

Part 4 Possible Futures in Critical 'Spaces'

12 Of Human Responsibility: Considering the Human/Environment Relationship and Ecosystems in the Anthropocene Karen Morrow 269

13 The Corporation and the Anthropocene Sally Wheeler 289

14 Judging the Anthropocene: Transformative Adjudication in the Anthropocene Epoch Lynda Collins 309

15 The Emergence of Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene Jolene Lin 329

16 The End of European Union Environmental Law: An Environmental Programme for the Anthropocene Han Somsen 353

Index 373

Editorial Reviews

"If we expect to get through the "Anthropocene" - an emerging geological epoch where human activity may drive global environmental change towards and beyond the boundaries of self-regulating planetary systems such as climate - a road map offering guidance and direction will come in handy. This compelling volume of essays by seventeen passionate and respected scholars suggests some of the conceptual landmarks - sustainability, precaution, integration, restoration, planetization - on an environmental law and governance pathway that might promote better human choices while choices remain to be made." --Jamie Benidickson, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

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