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The Great Adaptation: Technique, Environment, and the Law on the Globe

By Guilherme Pratti
Edward Elgar Publishing December 2024

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ISBN-13
9781035345182
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
December 2024
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This timely book puts forward a novel understanding of the ongoing relationship between the law, regulation, technology and science with the goal of helping to mitigate and adapt to the severe environmental and societal impacts of climate change.

Guilherme Pratti demonstrates the pivotal role of the law in the struggle against climate change and introduces a novel understanding of the ‘technique phenomenon’, whereby legislation can shape the main features of sustainable development and steer its attainable achievements. Through exploration of international environmental law and the European Green Deal, Pratti illustrates how climate change can be framed as a legal challenge. He emphasises how regulation is resulting in the Earth being classed as a legal object, which, in turn, has the potential to aid future environmental global governance.

The Great Adaptation is an invaluable resource for students and academics in international environmental and climate law, philosophy of technology, science, regulation, legal theory, and the sociology of globalization. This book is also of interest to policymakers and those wishing to understand the philosophical aspects of legal measures against climate change.

Table of Contents

Preface
1.
Introducing the question concerning law and technique: an unexpected conversation

PART I. THE LAW: TECHNIQUE OR TECHNOLOGY?
2.
Philosophy of technique: the constitutive role of law within the modern technique phenomenon
3.
Law, technique and technology

PART II. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY’S CHALLENGE: THE NEXUS LAW-TECHNIQUE-NATURE
4.
The great acceleration: technique, globalisation, and climate change
5.
The role of law and the Green Deal’s total mobilisation

PART III. AN EVER-INCREASING TECHNICAL PHENOMENON: TECHNIQUE, ENVIRONMENT, AND LAW IN AN
INTERCONNECTED WORLD
6.
Law’s overarching touch: heights and depths
7.
Ingraining reality in law: a climate-changing tempo
8.
Constituting the ongoing quest for adaptation: concluding remarks

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