The Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5099-2460-8
Verlag: HART PUB

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 706 g

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Benjamin J.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I
FOUNDATIONS
1. Environmental Aesthetics and Art

I. Taking Aesthetics Seriously
II. Outline of the Book

III. The Concept of the Aesthetic

IV. Environmental Aesthetics

V. Art and the Environment

VI. Leveraging Change

VII. Conclusion

2. Aesthetics and Environmental Law
I. Law and Aesthetics

II. The Making of Environmental Law

III. Environmental Policy Discourse

IV. Environmental Regulation

V. Nationalising Nature

VI. Conclusion 8
3. Governance Challenges

I. Orientation

II. Codifying Beauty

III. Competing Values

IV. Biased Aesthetics

V. Absent Aesthetics

VI. Art of Seduction

PART II
STORIES
4. Vanquished Nature

I. Faking Nature

II. Domesticating Nature

III. Looks that Kill: Persecuting the Beautiful

IV. Museums for Nature's Relics

V. Out of Sight, Out of Mind

VI. Conclusion

5. Corporate Greenwashing

I. Orientation

II. Figurative CSR Discourse

III. Aesthetics and Corporate Communications

IV. Regulating Green Illusions

V. Conclusions
6. Ecological Restoration

I. Aesthetics of Nature's Damage and Recovery

II. Post-Mining Rehabilitation

III. Ecosystem Restoration

IV. Restorative Art

V. Conclusion

7. Climate Change

I. The Issues

II. Aesthetics and Climate Change

III. Climate Art and Activism

IV. Climate Change Mitigation

V. Climate Change Adaptation

VI. Climate Engineering

PART III
ASPIRATIONS
8. Critical Aesthetics

I. Law and Curating Aesthetics

II. Counter Aesthetics

III. Social Aesthetics

IV. Aesthetics of Engagement and Vulnerability

V. Adjudicating Aesthetics

VI. Ending

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson, Benjamin J.
Benjamin J Richardson is Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania, Australia. His international academic career has spanned law faculties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. He held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Global Law Visiting Chair at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Professor Richardson's environmental interests extend to community-focused groups including the Tasmanian Independent Science Council and the Restore Lake Pedder campaign.

Benjamin J Richardson is a Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Tasmania. His international academic career has spanned law faculties in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and formerly he held the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law at the University of British Columbia, and the Global Law Visiting Chair at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He practises environmental stewardship at his Tasmanian eco-sanctuary, Blue Mountain View.