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.
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If your senses require a break from the quotidian bad news about our planet, I recommend this delightful book about beauty and environmental law. -- David Takacs, University of California Hastings College of the Law * Transnational Environmental Law * Few law books have as many illustrations as this one, few draw together so many disparate strands and few inspire the reader to reflect as thoroughly on how deeply the way we think and act, and therefore how the law is shaped, is affected by perceptions of which we are usually at best only half-aware. It makes a persuasive case for paying more attention to aesthetics in thinking about the law. -- Colin T Reid, University of Dundee * Scottish Planning and Environmental Law * This is a work of both breadth and detail, and in producing it Richardson blends the vision of a landscape artist with the focus of a miniature painter ... The Art of Environmental Law truly is an impressive work ... This is a book that will support multiple readings, for its richness is lost in a single turn through its pages. -- Emily Barritt * Journal of Environmental Law * Benjamin Richardson's The Art of Environmental Law is a fascinating overview that is remarkably readable despite its considerable length. Indeed, its greatest strength is its interdisciplinarity. Richardson draws on studies of environmental law and landscape management, biodiversity conservation, museum practices, advertising, ecotourism, environmental restoration, land art, and environmental activism, as well as philosophical environmental aesthetics. The result is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the many different avenues through which aesthetic values, broadly construed, can enter into the development and application of environmental law ... For those working in the field, Richardson's call for the development of more effective means of adjudicating aesthetic disputes will be a welcome endorsement of the practical value of philosophical contributions to environmental aesthetics and conservation. -- Jennifer Welchman * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism * The Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics covers a great deal of ground. Richardson artfully weaves discussions of broad and complex environmental challenges with personal anecdotes and interesting tales. * Eliza Williams, Alternative Law Journal *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-5099-5276-2 (9781509952762)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
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University of Tasmania, Australia
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
