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Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law

Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law

Author: Usha Natarajan; Julia Dehm
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108497268

Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
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Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781108739696

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For those troubled by environmental harm on a global scale and its deeply unequal effects, this book explains how international law structures ecological degradation and environmental injustice while claiming to protect the environment. It identifies how central legal concepts such as sovereignty, jurisdiction, territory, development, environment, labour and human rights make inaccurate and unsustainable assumptions about the natural world and systemically reproduce environmental degradation and injustice. To avert socioecological crises, we must not only unpack but radically rework our understandings of nature and its relationship with law. We propose more sustainable and equitable ways to remake law's relationship with nature by drawing on diverse disciplines and sociocultural traditions that have been marginalized within international law. Influenced by Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), postcolonialism and decoloniality, and inspired by Indigenous knowledges, cosmology, mythology and storytelling, this book lays the groundwork for an epistemological shift in the way humans conceptualize the relationship between law and nature.

Introduction: where is the environment? Locating nature in international law

Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm

Part I. Locating Nature in International Law: Towards New Thinking:

1. Locating nature: making and unmaking international law

Usha Natarajan and Kishan Khoday

2. From classical liberalism to neoliberalism: explaining the contradictions in the international environmental law project

Hélène Mayrand

3. Reconfiguring environmental governance in the green economy: extraction, stewardship and natural capital

Julia Dehm

Part II. Unmaking International Law:

4. Appropriating nature: commerce, property and the commodification of nature in the Law of Nations

Ileana Porras