The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene

Peter D. Burdon is Associate Professor at Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide, Australia. James Martel is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, USA.

Contributors

Interrogating the Anthropocene by Peter Burdon and James Martel

PART 1

First Laws

1 The Problem with Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene Epoch: Reimagining International Environmental Law’s Mantra Principle Through Ubuntu

Louis J. Kotzé, Sam Adelman, and Felix Dube

2 The Sovereign Order of Tiƞa: Enduring Traditions of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa

Anatoli Ignatov

3 The Super-Factual Anthropocene and Encounters with Indigenous Law

Kirsten Anker and Mark Antaki

PART II

Subjects of the Anthropocene

4 The Anthropocene Archive: Human and Inhuman Subjects and Sediments

Kathleen Birrell

5 We, Earthbound People: Constituent Power in Entangled Times

Daniel Matthews

6 Chastened Humanism and/or Necrotic Anthropocene: Transcendence toward Less

Ira Allen

PART III

Landscapes of Hope and Despair

7 Biodiversity: The Neglected Lens for Reimagining Property, Responsibility, and Law for the Anthropocene

Paul J. Govind and Michelle Lim

8 The Law of the Sea: Oceans, Ships, and the Anthropocene

Renisa Mawani

9 Ocean Acidification and the Anthropocene: An Emergency Response

Prue Taylor

10 Outer Space in the Anthropocene

Emily Ray

PART IV

Ecological and Earth Systems Law

11 Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth System Law in the Ruptured Anthropocene

Rakhyun E. Kim

12 Collapse or Sustainability?: Ecological Integrity as a Fundamental Norm of Law

Klaus Bosselmann

13 Making Ecological Integrity Human-Inclusive in the Anthropocene

Geoffrey Garver

PART V

Dignity and Human Rights

14 The Anthropocene and Human Rights: A New Context and the Need to Revisit Collective Human Concerns

Karen Morrow

15 Dignity in the Anthropocene

Erin Daly and Dina Lupin

PART VI

Regulating Nature and Nature Regulates

16 Regulating Nature and the Rule of Law

Han Somsen

17 Solar Geoengineering and the Challenge of Governing Multiple Risks in the Anthropocene

Kerryn Brent

18 The Transformative Power of Receptivity: Building a Smart Political Energy Grid in Response to Planetary Ecological Crisis

Romand Coles and Lia Haro

PART VII

Imagination and Utopia

19 Imagined Utopias

Benjamin J. Richardson

20 Myth for the Anthropocene

Peter D. Burdon and James Martel

21 The Nomos of Creativity in the Anthropocene

Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Lachlan Hoy

22 Learning Ecological Law: Innovating Legal Curriculum and Pedagogy

Kate Galloway and Nicole Graham

PART VIII

Post-Script

23 Law, Responsibility, and the Capitalocene: In Search of New Arts of Living

Sally Wheeler and Anna Grear in Conversation with Peter Burdon

Index