The art of environmental law : governing with aesthetics /

"Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Not only have aesthetic values shaped the making of environmental law, such law also governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedu...

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Main Author: Richardson, Benjamin J (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Not only have aesthetic values shaped the making of environmental law, such law also governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xviii, 344 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color map
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781509924615
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DOI:10.5040/9781509924639