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Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law

Hardback

Main Details

Title Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Brad Jessup
Edited by Kim Rubenstein
SeriesConnecting International Law with Public Law
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:558
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 160
ISBN/Barcode 9781107019423
ClassificationsDewey:344.046
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 3 Tables, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 February 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This collection of essays examines the development and application of environmental laws and the relationship between public laws and international law. Notions of good governance, transparency and fairness in decision-making are analysed within the area of the law perceived as having the greatest potential to address today's global environmental concerns. International trends, such as free trade and environmental markets, are also observed to be infiltrating national laws. Together, the essays illustrate the idea that in the context of environmental problems being dynamic and environmental changes appearing suddenly, laws become difficult to design and effect. Typically, they are also devised within a conflicted setting. It is in this changeable and discordant context that environmental discourses such as precaution, justice, risk, equity, security, citizenship and markets contribute to legal responses, present legal opportunities or hinder progress.

Author Biography

Brad Jessup teaches and researches at the Australian National University across the disciplines of law and geography. Kim Rubenstein is the Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the ANU College of Law and the inaugural Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute at the Australian National University, Canberra.