Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries

Edited by Duncan French, Pro Vice Chancellor of the College of Social Science and Professor of International Law, University of Lincoln, UK and Louis J. Kotzé, Research Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law, University of Lincoln, UK

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