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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene

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Editors:
  1. Michelle Lim

    1. Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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  • Questions the suitability and efficacy of existing environmental laws, and charts pathways for the further development of legal mechanisms in light of global environmental change
  • Highlights legal and institutional mechanisms to help shape sustainable futures
  • Investigates desirable futures for environmental law itself

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Securing Equitable and Sustainable Futures in the Anthropocene—What Role and Challenges for Environmental Law?

    • Michelle Lim
    Pages 1-18

  4. Planetary Order and International Collaboration

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. The Ocean-Climate Nexus in the Unfolding Anthropocene: Addressing Environmental Challenges Through International Law and Cooperation

      • Stephen Minas
      Pages 83-94

    3. Consequences of the Recognition of Forest Protection as a Common Concern of Humankind for the Anthropocene

      • Maša Kovič Dine
      Pages 95-105

    4. International Water Law in Multi-scale Governance of Shared Waters in the Anthropocene: Towards Cooperation, not “Water Wars”

      • Remy Kinna
      Pages 107-119

    5. Rising China and Antarctic Futures in the Anthropocene

      • Nengye Liu
      Pages 121-128

    6. The International Environmental Court—A Necessary Institution for Sustainable Planetary Governance in the Anthropocene

      • Alexander M. SoIntsev
      Pages 129-138

    7. Global Assessment and Review: The Importance of a Transparency Turn in International Environmental Law

      • Nafiseh Jafarzadeh
      Pages 139-148

  5. Implementing Transformative Law and Governance for Sustainable and Equitable Futures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Indigenous Rights and Universal Periodic Review: A Confluence of Human Rights and Environmental Issues

      • Jonathan Liljeblad
      Pages 151-157

    3. Constitutionally Shackled: The Story of Environmental Jurisprudence in India

      • Nupur Chowdhury
      Pages 159-169

    4. Liability for Environmental Harm as a Response to the Anthropocene

      • Jacob Phelps, Carol Adaire Jones, John Pendergrass
      Pages 171-180

    5. On the Hypotactic Imperative for a Transition from the Anthropocene to the Sustainocene

      • Benjamen Franklen Gussen
      Pages 181-190
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About this book

This book explores a range of plausible futures for environmental law in the new era of the Earth’s history: the Anthropocene. The book discusses multiple contemporary and future challenges facing the planet and humanity. It examines the relationship between environmental law and the Anthropocene at governance scales from the global to the local.
 
The breadth of issues and jurisdictions covered by the book, its forward-looking nature, and the unique generational perspective of the contributing authors means that this publication appeals to a wide audience from specialist academics and policy-makers to a broader lay readership.
  



Editors and Affiliations

  • Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

    Michelle Lim

About the editor

Dr Michelle Lim is Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. Her research occurs at the intersection between biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Dr Lim's scholarship has a particular focus on transdisciplinary governance approaches to the effective and equitable conservation of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.

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