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Author:   Keith H. Hirokawa
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9781316507575

ISBN 10:   1316507572
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   07 January 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Nature in a constructed world: grounding the constructivist method Rik Scarce and Keith H. Hirokawa; 2. An unnatural divide: how law obscures individual environmental harms Katrina Fischer Kuh; 3. Defining nature as a common pool resource Jonathan D. Rosenbloom; 4. Property constructs and nature's challenge to property perpetuity Jessica Owley; 5. Perceiving change and knowing nature: shifting baselines and nature's resiliency Robin Kundis Craig; 6. Animals and law in the American city Irus Braverman; 7. Boundaries of nature and the American city Stephen R. Miller; 8. Constructing nature the radical way: extreme environmentalism and law Rik Scarce; 9. Wilderness imperatives and untrammeled nature Sandra B. Zellmer; 10. Native American values and laws of exclusion Catherine Iorns-Magallanes; 11. Challenging what appears 'natural': the environmental justice movement's impact on the environmental agenda Shannon M. Roesler; 12. The transformation of water Dan A. Tarlock; 13. Framing watersheds Craig Anthony Arnold; 14. The last, last frontier Michael Burger.

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'Would nature exist without property law? ... this is the kind of inquiry Keith Hirokawa and his collaborators ... ask us to explore as a way of gaining deeper appreciation of law's construction of nature as a human concept. Every chapter in this volume reminds us that nature is not the world without humans, it is a part of the world humans construct through law and other social institutions. ... This collection of essays offers a bounty of fresh, innovative, and insightful expositions on that immensely important question. It will change the way you think law should think about nature.' J. B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School 'By exploring how we construct and change nature by our laws, the contributors to this book demonstrate the importance of new policy debates and the need for changing our constructs, especially in a climate altered world. To have a new way of looking at the world, we have to understand how we got where we are. This book does this beautifully.' Victor B. Flatt, Director, Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resource, University of North Carolina

'Would nature exist without property law? … this is the kind of inquiry Keith Hirokawa and his collaborators … ask us to explore as a way of gaining deeper appreciation of law's construction of nature as a human concept. Every chapter in this volume reminds us that nature is not the world without humans, it is a part of the world humans construct through law and other social institutions. … This collection of essays offers a bounty of fresh, innovative, and insightful expositions on that immensely important question. It will change the way you think law should think about nature.' J. B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School 'By exploring how we construct and change nature by our laws, the contributors to this book demonstrate the importance of new policy debates and the need for changing our constructs, especially in a climate altered world. To have a new way of looking at the world, we have to understand how we got where we are. This book does this beautifully.' Victor B. Flatt, Director, Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resource, University of North Carolina

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Keith Hirokawa is an Associate Professor of Law at the Albany Law School. His scholarship has explored convergences in ecology, ethics, economics and law, with particular attention given to local environmental law, ecosystem services policy, watershed management and environmental impact analysis. He has authored dozens of professional and scholarly articles in these areas and has co-edited (with Dean Patricia Salkin) Greening Local Government (2012).

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