Research Handbook on Feminist Approaches to Environmental Law

This Handbook explores the failings of environmental law in protecting people and nature due to its treatment of problems as separate, technical issues rather than connected, lived realities. Bringing together feminist theories, it discusses the link between global issues, including pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource use, as well as social inequalities influenced by gender, race, and colonial histories.

Combining deep theoretical analysis with international and national case studies, contributing authors highlight how environmental harm is experienced unequally in everyday life through health, work, care, and survival. Chapters rethink regulation, switching the emphasis from dominance and control to connection and responsibility, establishing the need to recognise our interdependence with both each other and our ecosystem. Featuring interdisciplinary perspectives from legal academics and practitioners drawing on diverse strands of feminist scholarship, the Handbook proposes more caring and accountable forms of governance oriented toward justice and ecological integrity.

The Research Handbook on Feminist Approaches to Environmental Law is an essential resource for students and scholars of environmental law, feminist legal theory, and gender studies. Policymakers and researchers will also benefit from its global coverage and innovative analysis.