Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: A Constructivist Approach

Environmental / Energy Law

Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature: A Constructivist Approach

By Keith H. Hirokawa
Cambridge University Press January 2016

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781316507575
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2016
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Also available as

Details

Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing that law has embedded discrete constructions of nature helps in understanding how humans value their relationship with nature.

This book offers a scholarly examination of the manner in which nature is constructed through law, both in the 'hard' sense of directly regulating human activities that impact nature, and in the 'soft' manner in which law's ideas of nature influence and are influenced by behaviors, values, and priorities. Traditional accounts of the intersection between law and nature generally focus on environmental laws that protect wilderness.

This book will build on the constructivist observation that when considered as a culturally contingent concept, 'nature' is a self-perpetuating and self-reinforcing social creation.

Table of Contents

1. Nature in a constructed world: grounding the constructivist method Rik Scarce and Keith H. Hirokawa
2. An unnatural divide: how law obscures individual environmental harms Katrina Fischer Kuh
3. Defining nature as a common pool resource Jonathan D. Rosenbloom
4. Property constructs and nature's challenge to property perpetuity Jessica Owley
5. Perceiving change and knowing nature: shifting baselines and nature's resiliency Robin Kundis Craig
6. Animals and law in the American city Irus Braverman
7. Boundaries of nature and the American city Stephen R. Miller
8. Constructing nature the radical way: extreme environmentalism and law Rik Scarce
9. Wilderness imperatives and untrammeled nature Sandra B. Zellmer
10. Native American values and laws of exclusion Catherine Iorns-Magallanes
11. Challenging what appears 'natural': the environmental justice movement's impact on the environmental agenda Shannon M. Roesler
12. The transformation of water Dan A. Tarlock
13. Framing watersheds Craig Anthony Arnold
14. The last, last frontier Michael Burger.
HKD 504.40 −3%
HKD 520.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Environmental / Energy Law

View all
Principles of International Environmental Law 4th Edition
Cambridge University Press

Principles of International Environmental Law 4th Edition

Philippe Sands; Jacqueline Peel; Adriana Fabra; Ruth MacKenzie
HKD 693.55
Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene
Springer-Verlag

Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene

Michelle Lim
HKD 1,861.00
Environment Act 2021: Text, Guide and Analysis
Hart Publishing

Environment Act 2021: Text, Guide and Analysis

Christopher Badger; Richard Macrory Hon QC
HKD 1,765.40
Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage In European Law
Cambridge University Press

Environmental Liability and Ecological Damage In European Law

Monika Hinteregger
HKD 1,954.55
NAFTA and Sustainable Development
Cambridge University Press

NAFTA and Sustainable Development

Hoi Kong; Kinvin Wroth
HKD 1,462.76
International Environmental Law
Cambridge University Press

International Environmental Law

Pierre-Marie Dupuy; Jorge E. Vinuales