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Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis

Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis

Author: Anna Grear; Evadne Grant
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781784711320
Published In: July 2015
Format: Hardback , 336 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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In the climate-pressed Anthropocene epoch, nothing could be more urgent than fresh engagements with the fractious relationships between ‘humanity’, law and the living order. This timely book intelligently combines theoretical reflections, doctrinal analyses and insights drawn from rights-based praxis to offer thoughtful – and at times provocative – engagements with the limitations of law as it faces the complexities of contemporary socio-ecological life-worlds in an age of climate crisis.

Leading scholars in the field discuss, in four parts, Philosophical Investigations, Reconfiguring the Legal, Activism and Praxis, and Multi-level Reformulations, to offer imaginative intellectual engagements with a range of challenges vexing the human-environmental-legal ‘interface’.

Scholars and students of human rights and environmental law and practitioners in the field alike will find the book to be a timely and thoughtful engagement with urgent human dilemmas.

Introduction
Anna Grear and Evadne Grant

PART I PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
1. Doubt and Denial: Epistemic Responsibility Meets Climate Change Scepticism
Lorraine Code

2. Actors or Spectators? Vulnerability and Critical Environmental Law
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

3. Reflections on the Relationship between Environmental Regulation, Human rights and Beyond—with Heidegger
Margherita Pierccini

4. Radicalism and Conservativism in Environmental Law
Sean Coyle

PART II RECONFIGURING THE LEGAL
5. Human Rights and Environmental Protection in India: The Judicial Journey from Public Interest Litigation to the National Green Tribunal
Gita Gill

6. Reimagining Adjudication: Human Rights Courts and the Environment
Evadne Grant

PART III ACTIVISM AND PRAXIS
7. Human Rights Practice: A Means to Environmental Ends?
Kate Donald

8. Schopenhaur's Mitleid: Environmental Outrage and Human Rights
Tom Kerns

PART IV MULTI-LEVEL REFORMULATIONS
9. Reimagining Ecological Governance Through a Rediscovery of the Commons
Burns H. Weston and David Bollier

10. Towards New Legal Futures? In Search of Renewing Foundations
Anna Grear

Index

Edited by Anna Grear, Reader in Law, Cardiff Law School, UK, Director, Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and Editor in Chief, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment and Evadne Grant, Associate Head, Department of Law, University of the West of England, UK, Coordinator, Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) and Editor, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment