Disciplined by industrial clock time, modern life distances people from nature's biorhythms such as its ecological, evolutionary, and climatic processes. The law is complicit in numerous ways. It compresses time through 'fast-track' legislation and accelerated resource exploitation. It suffers from temporal inertia, such as 'grandfathering' existing activities that limits the law's responsiveness to changing circumstances. Insouciance about past ecological damage, and neglect of its restoration, are equally serious temporal flaws: we cannot live sustainably while Earth remains degraded and unrepaired. Applying international and interdisciplinary perspectives on these issues, Time and Environmental Law explores how to align law with the ecological 'timescape' and enable humankind to 'tell nature's time'. Lending insight into environmental behaviour and impacts, this book pioneers a new understanding of environmental law for all societies, and makes recommendations for its reform. Minding nature, not the clock, requires regenerating Earth, adapting to its changes, and living more slowly.
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1. It's time; 2. Temporalities of change; 3. The ever-present now; 4. Rear vision; 5. Rallentare; 6. Telling the time.
Through the lens of time, the book critiques environmental law and recommends ways to enable it to respond to nature's time scales.
Product details
ISBN
9781107191242
Published
2017-08-03
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Weight
740 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
156 mm
Thickness
26 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
434
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