1st Edition

Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate Change Ruling Nature

By Gary Wickham, Jo-Ann Goodie Copyright 2013
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

The environment has not always been protected by law. It was not until the middle of the 20 th century that ‘the environment’ came to be understood as an entity in need of special care, and the law-politics duo firmly fixed its focus on this issue. In this book Wickham and Goodie tell the story of how law and politics first came upon the environment as an object in need of special... Read more

Part 1: Different Discourses of the Environment  1. Moral and Aesthetic Discourses of the Environment  2. Scientific, Political, Economic Discourses of the Environment  3. Legal Discourses of the Environment  Part 2: Climate Change - Refiguring Environmental Legal Understanding  4. Contemporary Construction of the Environment  5. Ecologically Sustainable Development  6. Risk

Biography

Jo-Ann Goodie is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Murdoch University, Australia.

Gary Wickham is Professor of Sociology at Murdoch University, Australia.

"Structurally the book is very clearly laid out, and stylistically it is consistently dynamic and engaging." - Thomas L. Muinzer, Queen's University Belfast for Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning (2014)]

"The book does not present a critical analysis of the effectiveness of legal political government for tackling environmental problems. Rather, its major contribution, through its description of its origins, is to aid understanding of why this type of government governs the environmental effects of human activities in particular ways and of why it has failed to date to provide an adequate response to environmental degradation." - Dr Olivia Woolley, University of Aberdeen for the Environmental Law Review (2014)