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This timely Handbook brings together a collection of innovative interdisciplinary approaches to explore the use of research methods in environmental law.

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Author:   Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos ,  Victoria Brooks
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781784712563

ISBN 10:   1784712566
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   24 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: PART I: MATERIALITY 1. Foregrounding Vulnerability: Materiality's Porous Affectability as a Methodological Platform Anna Grear 2. How to Think About 'Nature-society' Interactions in Environmental Law 'in Action'? Betina Lange 3. Abstracting Method: Taking Legal Abstractions Seriously Andrea Pavoni 4. Actor-network Theory and the Empirical Critique of Environmental Law: Unpacking the Bioprospecting Debates Emilie Cloatre 5. Speculative Entropy: Dynamism, Hyperchaos and the Fourth Dimension in Environmental Law Practice Lucy Finchett-Maddock 6. Critical Environmental Law as Method in the Anthropocene Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos PART II: SPATIALITY AND JURISDICTION 7. Place-thinking: The Hidden Geography of Environmental Law Robyn Bartel 8. Bringing Environmental Justice to the Centre of Environmental Law Research: Developing Collective Case Study Methodology Jane Holder and Donald McGillivray 9. Third Word Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) and the Environment Usha Natarajan 10. The Methodology of Environmental Constitutional Comparison Francois Venter and Louis J. Kotze 11. Engaged Enquiry in Environmental Law: Understanding People/place Connections Through a Geographically Informed Human Rights Lens Josephine Gillespie PART III: ECOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM 12. Ecofeminist Approaches to the Construction of Knowledge and Coalition Building - Offering a Way Forward for International Environmental Law and Policy Karren Morrow 13. Environmentalism and an Anarchist Research Method Peter Burdon and James Martel 14. On the Relation between Scholarship and Action in Environmental Law: Method, Theory, Change Andreas Kotsakis 15. A Systems Theory Perspective on the Principle of Precaution Employing Critical Discourse Analysis John Paterson 16. Environmental Law In The Age Of The Anthropocene: How To Normatively Communicate On Environmental Change And Risks? Inger Johanne Sand 17. The Nested Eye: Naturalism, Perspectivalism, and Environmental Law Ben Woodard PART IV: MORE-THAN-HUMAN 18. Thinking about Law and the Question of the Animal Edward Mussawir and Yoriko Otomo 19. The Life and Law of Corals: Breathing Meditations Irus Braverman 20. All That Is Air Melts Into City: Minoritarian Apparatuses For A More-Than-Human World Mirko Nikolic 21. Listening to the World: Sounding out the Surroundings of Environmental Law with Michel Serres Danilo Mandic 22. F#cking Research Ethics Through Radical Method: Autoethnography and The Field of Environmental Law Victoria Brooks Index

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`The book is a thought-provoking journey of different, often experimental, innovative ideas that stretch the boundaries of environmental law research and scholarship. The volume contributes towards efforts to drive more inter-disciplinary approaches in environmental law, while critically reflecting on theoretical and methodological understandings. The diversity in disciplinary backgrounds of the authors provide a rich array of perspectives. The inter-disciplinary lens of the book is particularly topical. The section on materiality, for example, is very useful for environmental law -- scholars considering how to incorporate the surge of work on `nature-society' relations in the humanities and social sciences.' - Law Environment and Development Journal

'The editors have tackled a difficult subject and are to be applauded for fashioning a volume that will surely stand the test of time as a landmark for environmental law scholars in the years to come.' -- Benjamin J Richardson, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 'The book is a thought-provoking journey of different, often experimental, innovative ideas that stretch the boundaries of environmental law research and scholarship. The volume contributes towards efforts to drive more inter-disciplinary approaches in environmental law, while critically reflecting on theoretical and methodological understandings. The diversity in disciplinary backgrounds of the authors provide a rich array of perspectives. The inter-disciplinary lens of the book is particularly topical. The section on materiality, for example, is very useful for environmental law -- scholars considering how to incorporate the surge of work on 'nature-society' relations in the humanities and social sciences.'- Law Environment and Development Journal 'This collection takes a bold step towards re-situating the legal enterprise alongside those bodies whose movement it strives to direct, thereby revitalising the sense of law's immanence to what has elsewhere been dubbed the lawscape , i.e. the entangled continuum of law and bodies.' -- Luigi Russi, Griffith Law Review

`The editors have tackled a difficult subject and are to be applauded for fashioning a volume that will surely stand the test of time as a landmark for environmental law scholars in the years to come.' -- Benjamin J Richardson, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment `The book is a thought-provoking journey of different, often experimental, innovative ideas that stretch the boundaries of environmental law research and scholarship. The volume contributes towards efforts to drive more inter-disciplinary approaches in environmental law, while critically reflecting on theoretical and methodological understandings. The diversity in disciplinary backgrounds of the authors provide a rich array of perspectives. The inter-disciplinary lens of the book is particularly topical. The section on materiality, for example, is very useful for environmental law -- scholars considering how to incorporate the surge of work on `nature-society' relations in the humanities and social sciences.' - Law Environment and Development Journal

Author Information

Edited by Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Professor of Law and Theory, Director of the Westminster Law & Theory Lab and Victoria Brooks, Lecturer in Law, Westminster Law School, University of Westminster, UK

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