The Organisation of the Anthropocene: In Our Hands?

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38135-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 82 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 136 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in International Law / Brill Research Perspectives in International Legal Theory and Practice

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. He examines in this context two basic propositions. First, law as a technology of social organisation has been neglected in the otherwise highly technology-focused accounts by natural and social scientists of the drivers of the Anthropocene. Secondly, in those rare instances where law has been discussed, there is a tendency to assume that the role of law is to tackle the negative externalities of transactions (e.g. their environmental or social implications) rather than the core of the underlying transactions, i.e. the organisation of production and consumption processes. Such focus on externalities fails to unveil the role of law in prompting, sustaining and potentially managing the processes that have led to the Anthropocene.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Viñuales, Jorge E.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Organisation of the Anthropocene

Jorge E. Viñuales

Abstract

Introduction

Part 1: Law in the Anthropocene Narrative

Part 2: Ingraining Nature in Law

3.1 Overview

3.2 Law Detached from Nature

3.2.1 An (Un-)Intended Consequence of Legal Positivism

3.2.2 Illustration: Conceptions of Property

3.3 The Horizon of Law in the Anthropocene

3.3.1 Hans Jonas and the Horizon of Ethics

3.3.2 The Task for Law

3.4 Revisiting Foundational Concepts

3.4.1 Transactions-Externalities: The External Logic of

Environmental Law

3.4.2 Illustrations: Conceptions of Sovereignty and Causality

Part 3: Accounting for Inequality

3.1 Overview

3.2 Legal Organisation of Production

3.2.1 Organising Production for the Industrial

Revolution

3.2.2 The Law of Business Organisation

3.2.3 Structuring Labour Relations

3.2.4 Pollution and Third Parties

3.3 Asymmetric International Exchange Systems

3.3.1 The British Atlantic System

3.3.2 The Legal Organisation of Trade

3.4 Operationalising Historical Responsibility

3.4.1 Level and Time-horizon

3.4.2 Industrialisation and the Historical Debt towards

Africans

3.4.3 The Legal Representation of Future Generations

3.4.4 Present Allocations: Common but Differentiated
Responsibilities

Part 4: Legal Organisation of the Transition

3.1 Overview

3.2 Adaptive Legal Systems

3.3 Promoting or Hindering the Transition

3.4 Legitimising the Transition

Conclusion: A Research Agenda

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Über Autor(innen)

Jorge E. Viñuales, LL.B. (UNICEN), LL.B. (Freiburg), BA, MA (HEI), BA, MA (Geneva), LL.M. (Harvard), PhD (Sciences Po Paris) is the inaugural Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, where he founded the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG).