Legal Reasoning in Environmental Law

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'Professor Fisher's analysis reveals the rationality, or rather the lack of it, of current environmental decision-making. It also provides the evidence for an environmental grundnorm to guide legal reasoning. Without it, political and legal decision-makers will not be able to achieve ecologically sustainable development. A timely book on a hugely important issue.' -- Klaus Bosselmann, University of Auckland, New Zealand 'I am afraid that an endorsement of this kind, however condense and packed with praise, cannot do justice to Doug Fisher's latest book. A respected and seasoned environmental law scholar, Fisher skilfully reminds us that law is about language and that language is the point of commencement of legal reasoning, also in environmental law and governance. Importantly, language and legal argumentation and reasoning will play a determinative role in our efforts to achieve sustainability. The book's detailed account of the different forms of legal argumentation; the methodology of legal decision-making; and the connection between law, language and legal reasoning in international environmental law and governance, is an invaluable resource for scholars of legal hermeneutics, international lawyers generally, and specifically, for environmental lawyers.' -- Louis J. Kotze, North West University, South Africa 'It can be said that Fisher's new book is a speci?c delight to read because the author has such thorough knowledge of jurisprudence in this case, the theory of legal reasoning and a hands-on approach to environmental law in the most concrete sense of the word. It is a clearly structured, well-balanced, and well thought out presentation that ?lls an important gap in environmental law scholarship.' -- Niko Soininen, Yearbook of International Environmental Law