Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene

Louis J Kotzé (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2016
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-0758-8 (ISBN)

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There is persuasive evidence suggesting we are on the brink of human-induced ecological disaster that could change life on Earth as we know it. There is also a general consensus among scientists about the pace and extent of global ecological decay, including a realisation that humans are central to causing the global socio-ecological crisis. This new epoch has been called the Anthropocene. Considering the many benefits that constitutional environmental protection holds out in domestic legal orders, it is likely that a constitutionalised form of global environmental law and governance would be better able to counter the myriad exigencies of the Anthropocene. This book seeks to answer this central question: from the perspective of the Anthropocene, what is environmental constitutionalism and how could it be extrapolated to formulate a global framework? In answering this question, this book offers the first systematic conceptual framework for global environmental constitutionalism in the epoch of the Anthropocene.

Louis J Kotzé is Research Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law of the North-West University, South Africa.

1. Introduction
I. Human Domination
2. Law and the Anthropocene’s Global
3. Constitutionalism
4. Global Aspects of Constitutionalism
5. The Fundamentals of Environmental Constitutionalism
6. The Prospects of Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene
7. A Vision of Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene
8. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2016
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 238 mm
Gewicht	600 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-5099-0758-0 / 1509907580
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-0758-8 / 9781509907588
Zustand	Neuware