Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene

The era of eco-crises signified by the Anthropocene trope is marked by rapidly intensifying levels of complexity and unevenness, which collectively present unique regulatory challenges to environmental law and governance. This volume sets out to address the currently under-theorised legal and consequent governance challenges presented by the emergence of the Anthropocene as a possible new geological epoch. While the epoch has yet to be formally confirmed, the trope and discourse of the Anthropocene undoubtedly already confront law and governance scholars with a unique challenge concerning the need to question, and ultimately re-imagine, environmental law and governance interventions in the light of a new socio-ecological situation, the signs of which are increasingly apparent and urgent. This volume does not aspire to offer a univocal response to Anthropocene exigencies and phenomena. Any such attempt is, in any case, unlikely to do justice to the multiple implications and characteristics of Anthropocene forebodings. What it does is to invite an unrivalled group of leading law and governance scholars to reflect upon the Anthropocene and the implications of its discursive formation in an attempt to trace some initial, often radical, future-facing and imaginative implications for environmental law and governance.

Auteur

Louis J Kotzé is Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University, South Africa.

Contenu

Part 1: Back to Basics: The Limits and Potential of Law and Governance in the Anthropocene

1. The Role of Sustainable Development and the Associated Principles of Environmental Law and Governance
   in the Anthropocene
   Jonathan Verschuuren
2. Reimagining International Environmental Law in the Anthropocene
   Tim Stephens
3. Doing Time-The Temporalities of Environmental Law
   Benjamin J Richardson
   
   Part 2: Radical Ontologies and Epistemologies for the Anthropocene
4. 'Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene': Re-encountering Environmental Law and its 'Subject' with
   Haraway and New Materialism
   Anna Grear
5. Critical Environmental Law and the Double Register of the Anthropocene: A Biopolitical Reading
   Vito De Lucia
6. Critical Environmental Law in the Anthropocene
   Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
7. Materiality and the Ontological Turn in the Anthropocene: Establishing a Dialogue between Law, Anthropology and Eco-Philosophy
   Saskia Vermeylen
   
   Part 3: Planetary Stewardship and Global Justice Reimagined
8. Global Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene: Setting and Achieving Global Goals
   Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
9. Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene
   Louis J Kotzé
10. Global Justice in the Anthropocene
    Carmen G Gonzalez
11. The Imperative of Ecological Integrity: Conceptualising a Fundamental Legal Norm for a New 'World System' in the Anthropocene
    Klaus Bosselmann
    
    Part 4: Possible Futures in Critical 'Spaces'
12. Of Human Responsibility: Considering the Human/Environment Relationship and Ecosystems in the Anthropocene
    Karen Morrow
13. The Corporation and the Anthropocene
    Sally Wheeler
14. Judging the Anthropocene: Transformative Adjudication in the Anthropocene Epoch
    Lynda Collins
15. The Emergence of Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene
    Jolene Lin
16. The End of European Union Environmental Law: An Environmental Programme for the Anthropocene
    Han Somsen