Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene
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 betw
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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene
Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene
Michelle Lim Editor
Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene
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Editor Michelle Lim Adelaide Law School University of Adelaide Adelaide, SA, Australia
ISBN 978-981-13-9064-7 ISBN 978-981-13-9065-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9065-4
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Foreword
Earth system scientists suggest we might be entering the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch, where humans have become a global geophysical force, dominating and changing the Earth system. While the Anthropocene must still be officially designated as such, it has since become a useful discursive framework that now occupies a central position in the sustainability discourse. In fact, the Anthropocene has become an important, if not entirely uncontentious, issue permeating the many multidisciplinary conversations that grapple with the place and future of humans as part of the Earth system. Originally emanating from the domain of natural sciences, the Anthropocene has now also become a focus of social sciences and the humanities, evidenced in particular by its recent inclusion as one of the four contextual conditions of the new Science and Implementation Plan of the Earth System Governance Project (the others are transformations, inequality and diversity). Curiously, however, when compared to the geosciences and the Earth system governance research agendas, the Anthropocene remains largely underexplored in the juridical domain, with only a few lawyers having interrogated its implications for la
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