Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
As environmental crises become ever more urgent and severe, it is crucial to reflect on the potential solutions that the law can offer. This timely Research Agenda introduces new directions for study and practice, presenting insights into the role of environmental law in securing a sustainable society.
Josephine van Zeben and Chris Hilson bring together a wide range of expert contributors to analyse cutting-edge developments in environmental law. Drawing on interdisciplinary material, they introduce novel conceptual frameworks and explore important topics including degrowth, rewilding, circular economy, the regenerative, corporate climate litigation and sustainable finance. A Research Agenda for Environmental Law highlights pressing legal strategies and avenues for development that will help address the triple planetary crises of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.
This thought-provoking book is an essential resource for those studying or researching in areas related to environmental law, climate law and transnational law. Its practical foresight will also benefit practitioners and policymakers in the field.
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''A timely, much-needed, and ambitious volume; one which curates and develops thought-provoking, futures-oriented agendas for the practice and study of environmental law from a wide range of globally leading scholars.' -- Steven Vaughan, University College London, UK 'A thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between scholarship and the practice and experience of law, which will be of interest not only to environmental lawyers but also to anyone exploring how changing realities should impact their scholarly approach and goals.' -- Emma Lees, University of Cambridge, UK 'An inspiring smorgasbord of essays that exposes the reader to the many flavours of environmental law scholarship.' -- Liz Fisher, University of Oxford, UK 'Trying to predict the future directions and agendas of a highly volatile and dynamic discipline like environmental law is never easy. A Research Agenda for Environmental Law is, however, an excellent attempt at mapping the cutting-edge interactions of law, social processes, and environmental challenges. Whether these interactions take the form of climate assemblies, forever chemicals, rewilding or the shadows of colonial legacies, the volume offers a clear and enlightening overview.' -- Ole W. Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
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Höhe: 234 mm
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Edited by Josephine van Zeben, Chair of Transnational Law, Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Italy and Chris Hilson, Professor, School of Law, University of Reading, UK
Contents
1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for
Environmental Law 1
Josephine van Zeben and Chris Hilson
PART I ENVIRONMENTAL LAW THINKING
2 The Drama of the Anthropocene: Despair and
Hope in Legal Scholarship 9
Emily Barritt
3 The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law:
A Developing Relationship 23
Yaffa Epstein
4 Animal Rights and Environmental Law 35
Anne Lansink
5 Using Biocultural Rights to Rethink Environmental
Law Through Human Rights 47
Giulia Sajeva
6 Regenerative Approaches and Environmental Law:
Beyond Sustainability? 59
Chris Hilson and Annalisa Savaresi
7 Polluters Pay and the Double Disembedding:
Overcoming the Unholy Relation Between Private
Law and Environmental Law 'Beyond the State' 73
Marija Bartl and Candida Leone
PART II NEW ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REALITIES
8 Politics and Expertise: New Environmental
Targets in English Environmental Law 89
Maria Lee
9 Climate Assemblies: Situating a Legal Experimentation 103
Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli
10 The Resurgence of Sovereignty: Environmental
Implications and Pathways for Future Research 117
Bruce R. Huber
11 Business as (Un)Usual at the Frontiers of Climate
Change Litigation 129
Rebekkah Markey-Towler and Jacqueline Peel
12 Corporate Environmental Due Diligence and
Value Chains 143
Klaas H. Eller
13 Sustainable Finance: Green Taxonomies as
Instruments of System Change? 157
Nathan de Arriba-Sellier
14 Centring the City in Environmental Law 171
Anneke Smit
15 PFAS Are Forever: Regulating Chronic Toxicity in
Our Living Environment 189
Josephine van Zeben
PART III SOCIETAL TRANSFORMATIONS
16 Degrowth: An Idea for Our Time 205
Gareth Davies
17 Making a Case for Radical Circular Economy
Legal Research 219
Feja Lesniewska
18 Environmental Law and Technology: A Research
Roadmap 233
Aude S. Epstein
19 New Approaches in Nature Conservation: The
Legal Nexus Between Rewilding and Nature
Conservation in the EU 247
Floor Fleurke
20 Colonial Legacies and Decolonial Futures:
Environmental Law and Indigenous Resistance in India 261
Arpitha Kodiveri
21 The Futures of Environmental Law 275
Josephine van Zeben and Chris Hilson
Index 287
