The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene

"This book opens up along a new horizon of what Anthropocene might mean for human juridical responsibility. Exceptionally interdisciplinary, this is a tapestry of perspectives that eschews romanticisation and remains critical throughout, reaching back to the indigenous roots of first laws and extending to new takes on geoengineering. This is a truly planetary book and perhaps its main lesson is this: that human exceptionalism must and can be translated into human responsibilisation with regards to our planet. If you want to find the tools to do this, read this book." Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, The Westminster Law & Theory Lab, London 
"Burdon and Martel have brought us an exciting and diverse collection of interdisciplinary essays that address today’s most urgent and critical questions. The authors marshal a strikingly wide range of conceptual resources, inspiring us to reimagine the human and the rules by which we live. It is abounding in creativity when we most need it!" Hasana Sharp, McGill University, Canada

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
 

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.