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Adaptive Law in the Anthropocene

Author : Shalanda Helen Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Adaptive Law in the Anthropocene written by Shalanda Helen Baker and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sky has fallen. We are now firmly rooted in a new epoch scientists have named the Anthropocene, where the activities of humans will most certainly negatively impact the trajectory of Earth and its inhabitants. What the Anthropocene fully holds is uncertain, but there are a few clues. The global ecology is shifting. The oceans are dying. The planet is getting hotter and drier, and its storms increasingly volatile. Amidst this changing climate is evidence of a failed approach to economic development in the Global South. Globally, the poor are becoming poorer. Inequality reigns as the global economy shrinks. This thought piece and Essay explores these twin issues -- human-created climate change and neoliberal economic development -- and argues that they are linked in ways not fully addressed by the emerging discourse on climate change adaptation. In particular, this Essay argues that reliance on neoliberal economic development institutions and methodologies to engage in the climate change adaptation project will render states in the Global South even more vulnerable and less resilient in the face of climate change. This Essay also offers a preliminary agenda and suggested starting points for scholars seeking to apply adaptive legal principles to international development.Part I examines the Anthropocene, particularly the effects of Anthropogenic climate change in the Global South. Part II explores neoliberal development in the Global South and, building on the growing body of literature critiquing neoliberalism, makes the case that, in the Anthropocene, the assumptions that support its pervasive use no longer hold. The Part also exposes aspects of neoliberal development, such as reliance on private actors, requirement for a stable investment environment, and reliance on markets for growth, that may render states in the Global South even more vulnerable to climate change. Drawing on the existing literature on adaptive law, Part III proposes potential pathways for development that might better respond to the needs of the Global South during the Anthropocene. We begin with the question: What is the Anthropocene?

In the Anthropocene

Author : Alejandro E. Camacho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book In the Anthropocene written by Alejandro E. Camacho and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change has induced an ecological crisis necessitating reconsideration of how the law should manage human interactions with ecological systems. In most Western legal regimes, conservation policy has principally sought to advance historical or natural preservation or sustained yield objectives, while many laws governing biotechnologies focus on minimising exposure to 'natural' systems. Meanwhile, Western public processes are largely built on a legal framework that assumes comprehensive rationality at the front end of decision-making. Lastly, prevailing public conservation governance is fragmented, save the limited attempts to consolidate or coordinate decentralised, independent, and/or overlapping authority. The increasingly convulsive effects of climate change and developments in biotechnology bring to stark relief the limitations of prevailing Western public conservation goals, processes, and institutional design. First, promoting biodiversity may require fundamental changes in management to focus on increasing ecological health and other values than consumption, historical fidelity, and nonintervention. Second, integration of adaptive and inclusive processes is imperative for promoting both effective management strategies and learning in the face of unprecedented change. Third, policymakers must appreciate the tradeoffs of allocating authority across the array of institutional structures, and tailor not only the scale of interventions but also the extent of overlap and coordination of authority.

Law for the Anthropocene

Author : Geoffrey Garver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Law for the Anthropocene written by Geoffrey Garver and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Anthropocene is an unprecedented phase of history defined by human impacts on Earth systems. This thesis uses the Anthropocene to frame a systems-based analysis of the role of law in the rise of the human-Earth dilemma in the Anthropocene and to propose ways for law to help shift to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. The history of human appropriation of matter and energy, the consequent ecological impacts and the societal norms that arose alongside this evolution, reveal key material and conceptual factors leading to the Anthropocene. The human capacity for collective learning is significant in this history and must underlie a transition to a better human-Earth relationship. Law reflects the ongoing evolution in collective human understanding of the human-Earth relationship. Since the rise of agriculture, law has often supported social hierarchies, specialization, property-based entitlements, inequalities in wealth, dependence on remote places for provisioning, and expansion and development. Modern legal systems, local to global, support a dominant commitment to perpetual economic growth, which drives critical challenges in the human-Earth relationship. Fostering a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship in a limits-insistent systems framework is a more desirable overarching goal than the current dominant commitment to perpetual economic growth. Concepts and approaches from ecological restoration, as well as studies of successful human integration in local ecosystems, give coherence to the notion of a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship and to related concepts such as ecological integrity. Acknowledging law as a complex adaptive system that interacts and evolves with other systems in a global panarchy will help in the transition to a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship in the Anthropocene. This systems-based approach can reveal strategies and priorities for overcoming barriers to, and for instilling enduring elements of, a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. This approach should take into account a hierarchy of potential leverage points for changing systems behavior--from paradigm shifts to superficial adjustments. As well, it must acknowledge path dependency that limits future possibilities for the human-Earth system. Key metrics and indicators in this analysis are grounded in how human manipulation of material and energy affects Earth's life support systems. Adaptive strategies, rigorous monitoring and caution against crossing key systems thresholds are central elements in this assessment framework. Applying this framework reveals that the United States' approach to international trade and finance, which reflects the dominant global approach, impedes progress toward a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. An alternative human-inclusive ecocentric approach to international trade and finance would give primacy to ensuring a mutually-enhancing human-Earth relationship, ecological integrity and fair sharing of Earth's life support capacity among present and future generations of humans and the rest of Earth's commonwealth of life. Policy-oriented research using the leverage points, lock-in assessments and metrics described in this thesis will help show how to achieve a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. The proposed research agenda resonates with approaches in ecological economics, the degrowth movement and numerous other movements around the world that seek a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship." --

Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene

Author : Timothy Cadman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000482499
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene by : Timothy Cadman

Download or read book Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene written by Timothy Cadman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically explores the emerging legal discipline of Earth System Law (ESL), challenging the closed system of law and marking a new era in law and society scholarship. Law has historically provided stability, certainty, and predictability in the ordering of social relations (predominantly between humans). However, in recent decades the Earth’s relationship in law has changed with increasing recognition of the standing of Mother Earth, inherent rights of the environment (such as flora and fauna, rivers), and now recognition of the multiple relations of the Anthropocene. This book questions the fundamental assumption that ‘the law’ only applies to humans, and that the earth, as a system, has intrinsic rights and responsibilities. In the last ten years the planet has experienced its hottest period since human evolution, and by the year 2100, unless substantive action is taken, many species will be lost, and planetary conditions will be intolerable for human civilisation as it currently exists. Relationships between humans, the biosphere, and all planetary systems must change. The authors address these challenging topics, setting the groundwork of ESL to ensure sustainable development of the coupled socio-ecological system that the Earth has become. Earth System Law is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research project, and, as such, this book will be of great interest to researchers and stakeholders from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, anthropology, economics, law, ethics, sociology, and psychology.

Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance

Author : Barbara Cosens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331972472X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance written by Barbara Cosens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia. The volume explores the obstacles and opportunities for governance that is capable of management, adaptation, and transformation in these regional social-ecological systems as they respond to accelerating environmental change. With the onset of the Anthropocene, global and regional changes in biophysical inputs to these systems will challenge their capacity to respond while maintaining functions of water supply, flood control, hydropower production, water quality, and biodiversity. Governance lies at the heart of the capacity of these systems to meet these challenges. Assessment of water basins in the United States and Australia indicates that state-centric governance of these complex and dynamic social-environmental systems is evolving to a more complex, diverse, and complex array public and private arrangements. In this process, three challenges emerge for water governance to become adaptive to environmental change. First, is the need for legal reform to remove barriers to adaptive governance by authorizing government agencies to prepare for windows of opportunity through adaptive planning, and to institutionalize the results of innovative solutions that arise once a window opens. Second, is the need for legal reform to give government agencies the authority to facilitate and participate in adaptive management and governance. This must be accompanied by parallel legal reform to assure that engagement of private and economic actors and the increase in governmental flexibility does not destabilize basin economies or come at the expense of legitimacy, accountability, equity, and justice. Third, development of means to continually assess thresholds and resilience of social-ecological systems and the adaptive capacity of their current governance to structure actions at multiple scales. The massive investment in water infrastructure on the river basins studied has improved the agricultural, urban and economic sectors, largely at the cost of other social and environmental values. Today the infrastructure is aging and in need of substantial investment for those benefits to continue and adapt to ongoing environmental changes. The renewal of institutions and heavily engineered water systems also presents the opportunity to modernize these systems to address inequity and align with the values and objectives of the 21st century. Creative approaches are needed to transform and modernize water governance that increases the capacity of these water-based social-ecological systems to innovate, adapt, and learn, will provide the tools needed to navigate an uncertain future.

Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene

Author : Emily Webster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000373002
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene written by Emily Webster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropocene is the proposed name for the new geological epoch in which humans have overwhelming impact on planetary processes. This edited volume invites reflection on the meaning and role of law in light of changing planetary realties. Taking the concept of the Anthropocene as a starting point, the contributions to this book address emerging legal issues from a transnational environmental law perspective. How law interacts with, and how law governs, global environmental problems is a challenge that legal scholars have approached with vigour over the last decade. More recently, the concept of the Anthropocene has become a topic that researchers have also begun to grapple with by engaging with disciplines beyond legal scholarship. One avenue of research that has emerged to address global environmental problems is transnational environmental law. Adopting ‘transnational law’ as a lens or framework through which to analyse environmental law takes a broader approach to the ways in which law may be assessed and deployed to meet planetary challenges. The chapters within this book provide a timely intervention into the theoretical and practical approaches of transnational environmental law in a time of significant uncertainty and environmental and human crises. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Transnational Legal Theory.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene

Author : Peter D. Burdon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000873501
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene written by Peter D. Burdon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system. The Anthropocene is a “crisis of the earth system.” This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the twenty-first century. Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of ecological law and politics, this handbook pursues a range of approaches to the scientific fact of anthropocentrism, with contributions from lawyers, philosophers, geographers, and environmental and political scientists. Rather than adopting a hubristic normativity, the contributors engage methods, concepts, and legal instruments in a way that underscores the importance of humility and an expansive ethical worldview. Contributors to this volume are leading scholars and future leaders in the field. Rather than upholding orthodoxy, the handbook also problematizes received wisdom and is grounded in the conviction that the ideas we have inherited from the Holocene must all be open to question. Engaging such issues as the Capitalocene, Gaia theory, the rights of nature, posthumanism, the commons, geoengineering, and civil disobedience, this handbook will be of enormous interest to academics, students, and others with interests in ecological law and the current environmental crisis.

Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene

Author : Louis Kotzé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 150990655X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene by : Louis Kotzé

Download or read book Environmental Law and Governance for the Anthropocene written by Louis Kotzé and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis

Author : Geoffrey Garver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000210707
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis written by Geoffrey Garver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to examine how Earth’s human-caused ecological crisis arose and presents a new legal approach for overcoming it. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis first examines how the history of humanity’s social metabolism, along with the history of human inventions and ideas, led to the human-Earth dilemma we see today and explains why contemporary law is inadequate for confronting this dilemma. The book goes on to propose ecological law—law that maintains human activity within ecological limits such as planetary boundaries while ensuring social justice and equity—as an essential element of an urgently needed radical pathway of change toward a perpetual, mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Finally, it offers a systems-based analytical tool for organizing actions to promote the transition from environmental to ecological law. Increasing the visibility, clarity and development of ecological law, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecological and environmental law and governance.

The Organisation of the Anthropocene

Author : Jorge E. Viñuales
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381368
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Organisation of the Anthropocene written by Jorge E. Viñuales and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Organisation of the Anthropocene, J. E. Viñuales explores the legal dimensions of the currently advocated new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, in which humans are the defining force.

Adaptation in the Anthropocene

Author : Pramova, E.
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Adaptation in the Anthropocene written by Pramova, E. and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key messagesEcosystems provide people with services that enable adaptation to climate change, which we refer to here as 'adaptation services'.But adaptation services do not flow automatically: some input from people is needed.We identified five types of mechanisms that support the production of adaptation services.These mechanisms are related to: (i) multifunctional and traditional ecosystem management, (ii) proactive management of transformed ecosystems, (iii) use of novel adaptation services, (iv) collective ecosystem management, and (v) appreciating, using and valuing adaptation services.Understanding these mechanisms can lead to an improved flow of adaptation services and more options for livelihoods and well-being under climate change.This InfoBrief summarizes the findings of a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series B (Lavorel et al. 2020).

Coordinating Climate Change Adaptation as Risk Management

Author : J. B. Ruhl
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2889763749
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Coordinating Climate Change Adaptation as Risk Management written by J. B. Ruhl and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change

Author : Karen L. O'Brien
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022983
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change written by Karen L. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new perspective on climate change for researchers and policymakers in the environmental social sciences and humanities.

Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene

Author : Louis J Kotzé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509907599
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Book Synopsis Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene by : Louis J Kotzé

Download or read book Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene written by Louis J Kotzé and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is persuasive evidence suggesting we are on the brink of human-induced ecological disaster that could change life on Earth as we know it. There is also a general consensus among scientists about the pace and extent of global ecological decay, including a realisation that humans are central to causing the global socio-ecological crisis. This new epoch has been called the Anthropocene. Considering the many benefits that constitutional environmental protection holds out in domestic legal orders, it is likely that a constitutionalised form of global environmental law and governance would be better able to counter the myriad exigencies of the Anthropocene. This book seeks to answer this central question: from the perspective of the Anthropocene, what is environmental constitutionalism and how could it be extrapolated to formulate a global framework? In answering this question, this book offers the first systematic conceptual framework for global environmental constitutionalism in the epoch of the Anthropocene.

Handbook on Space, Place and Law

Author : Robyn Bartel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788977203
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Space, Place and Law written by Robyn Bartel and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative Handbook provides an expansive interrogation of the spaces and places of law, exploring how we engage relationally in a material world, within which we are inter-dependent and reliant, and governed by laws in a dynamic process. It advances novel insights into the numerous intersections of space, place and law in our lives.

Ecological Systems Integrity

Author : Laura Westra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317501322
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Ecological Systems Integrity written by Laura Westra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants. This book presents a series of thought-provoking chapters which consider the place of governance and law in the defence against imminent and ongoing threats to ecological, social and cultural integrity. Written by an international team of both established and early-career scholars from various disciplines and backgrounds, the chapters cover the most pressing and contemporary issues in environmental law and governance. These include access and benefit-sharing; the right to food and water; climate change coping and adaptation; human rights; the rights of indigenous communities; public and environmental health; and many more. The book has a general focus on environmental governance and law in the European Union and offers points of comparison with Canada and North and South America.

Handbook on Adaptive Governance

Author : Sirkku Juhola
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800888244
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Adaptive Governance written by Sirkku Juhola and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interconnectedness of global society is increasingly visible through crises such as the current global health pandemic, emerging climate change impacts and increasing erosion of biodiversity. This timely Handbook navigates the challenges of adaptive governance in these complex contexts, stressing the necessarily compounded nature of bio-physical and social systems to ensure more desirable governance outcomes.