Full Description
This comprehensive Research Handbook is the first study to link law and Earth system science through the epistemic lens of the planetary boundaries framework. It critically examines the legal and governance aspects of the framework, considering not only each planetary boundary, but also a range of systemic issues, including the ability of law to keep us within the planetary boundaries' safe operating space.
The expert contributors investigate the current and potential role of law in relation to the complex task and regulatory challenges of governing the Earth system. They explore three thematic areas: the overarching legal, ethical and governance dimensions of the planetary boundaries; their diverse international law dimensions and the challenges they raise for international law; and the extent to which the law already provides for some of the aspects illuminated by each planetary boundary, alongside opportunities for legal reform.
Lawyers, Earth system scientists and governance experts will benefit from the mapping of the next stage of international environmental law included in the chapters. The book will also be a key resource for regulators, legislators and policy-makers looking for an in-depth study of the relationship between law and each of the nine planetary boundaries.
Contents
Contents:
Foreword xi
Preface xii
1 Staying within the planet's 'safe operating space'? Law and the
planetary boundaries 1
Louis J. Kotzé and Duncan French
PART I LEGAL, ETHICAL AND GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS OF
THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
2 Exploring the planetary boundaries and environmental law: historical
development, interactions and synergies 21
Alice Bleby, Cameron Holley and Ben Milligan
3 Governing the complexity of planetary boundaries: a state-of-the-art
analysis of social science scholarship 45
Rakhyun E. Kim and Louis J. Kotzé
4 Planetary boundaries, planetary ethics and climate justice in the Anthropocene 65
Sam Adelman
5 Science, law and planetary uncertainty 84
Lynda Collins
6 Planetary boundaries intra muros : cities and the Anthropocene 103
Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne E. Nijman
PART II INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES
7 Planetary boundaries and regime interaction in international law 125
Dario Piselli and Harro van Asselt
8 Changing role of law-making in responding to planetary boundaries? 147
Giovanna M. Frisso and Elizabeth A. Kirk
9 International law, planetary boundaries and teleconnections 167
Ellen Hey
10 Compliance with planetary boundaries in international law 183
Jonas Ebbesson
11 Exploring the planetary boundaries' wasteland: international law and
the advent of the Molysmocene 203
Michael Hennessy Picard and Olivier Barsalou
PART III PLANETARY BOUNDARIES AND THE LAW
12 Loss of biosphere integrity (biodiversity loss and extinctions) 221
Han Somsen and Arie Trouwborst
13 Climate change 245
Jonathan Verschuuren
14 Stratospheric ozone depletion 260
Louise du Toit
15 Atmospheric aerosol loading 277
Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli and Emily Webster
16 Ocean acidification 294
Tim Stephens
17 Nitrogen and phosphorus flows to the biosphere and oceans 309
Daniela Diz
18 Freshwater consumption and the global hydrological cycle 324
Nathan John Cooper
19 Land system change 342
Karen Morrow
20 Chemical pollution (and the release of novel entities) 363
Tiina Paloniitty, Chukwukpee Nzegwu and Duncan French
Index
