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The environment has not always been protected by law. It was not until the middle of the 20th 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 Discourses of Environmental Law and the Conceptualisation of Climate Change Wickham and Goodie tell the story of how law and politics first came upon the environment as an object in need of special attention. They outline the unlikely intersection of aesthetics and science that made 'the environment' into the matter of great concern it is today. The book describes the way private common-law strategies and public-law legislative strategies have approached the task of protecting the environment, and explore the greatest environmental challenge to have so far confronted environmental law and politics; the threat of global climate change. The book offers descriptions of many of the strategies being deployed to meet this challenge and present some troubling assessments of them.
Discourses of Environmental Law and the Conceptualisation of Climate Change will be of great interest to students, teachers, and researchers of environmental law, socio-legal studies, environmental studies, and political theory.
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
Gary Wickham is Professor of Sociology at Murdoch University, Australia. Jo-Ann Goodie is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Murdoch University, Australia.
