Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate Change
Ruling Nature
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate Change
Ruling Nature
About this book
The environment has not always been protected by law. It was not until the middle of the 20th century that 'the environment' came to be understood as an entity in need of special care, and the law-politics duo firmly fixed its focus on this issue.
In this book Wickham and Goodie tell the story of how law and politics first came upon the environment as an object in need of special attention. They outline the unlikely intersection of aesthetics and science that made 'the environment' into the matter of great concern it is today. The book describes the way private common-law strategies and public-law legislative strategies have approached the task of protecting the environment, and explore the greatest environmental challenge to have so far confronted environmental law and politics; the threat of global climate change. The book offers descriptions of many of the strategies being deployed to meet this challenge and present some troubling assessments of them.
The book will be of great interest to students, teachers, and researchers of environmental law, socio-legal studies, environmental studies, and political theory.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: towards a legal-political narrative
- 2. Legal-political government as a new form of government
- 3. The environment (slowly) emerges as an object of legal-political government
- 4. Law’s role in the legal-political government of the environment Part 1: the private common-law role
- 5. Law’s role in the legal-political government of the environment Part 2: the public-law role
- 6. The legal-political government of the threat of climate change
- 7. Conclusion: two case studies and some final thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index