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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459967503321

Titolo

Law and ecology : new environmental foundations / / edited by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81711-5

1-283-10418-0

9786613104182

1-136-81712-3

0-203-82969-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Law, justice and ecology

Altri autori (Persone)

Philippopoulos-MihalopoulosAndreas

Disciplina

344.04/6

Soggetti

Environmental law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A GlassHouse book."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Looking for the space between law and ecology / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Towards a critical environmental law / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Foucauldian inspired discourse analysis : a contribution to critical environmental law scholarship / Bettina Lange -- The ecological narrative of risk and the emergence of toxic tort litigation / Jo Goodie -- The precautionary principle : practical reason, regulatory decision-making and judicial review in the context of functional differentiation / John Paterson -- Biotechnology as environmental regulation / Alain Pottage -- Perspectives on environmental law and the law relating to sustainability : a continuing role for ecofeminism / Karen Morrow -- Animals and the future salvation of the world / Piyel Haldar -- Seeking spatial and environmental justice for people and places within the EU / Antonia Layard and Jane Holder -- Heterotopias of the environment : law's forgotten spaces / Andreas Kotsakis -- Deleuze and the defence of nature / Mark Halsey.

Sommario/riassunto

Law and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations contains a series of theoretical and applied perspectives on the connection between law and ecology, which together offer a radical and socially responsive



foundation for environmental law. While its legal corpus grows daily, environmental law has not enjoyed the kind of jurisprudential underpinning generally found in other branches of law. This book forges a new ecological jurisprudential foundation for environmental law - where 'ecological' is understood both in the narrow sense of a more ecosystemic perspective on law, and in the br