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 1First 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 Dube2 The Sovereign Order of Tiƞa: Enduring Traditions of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa Anatoli Ignatov3 The Super-Factual Anthropocene and Encounters with Indigenous Law Kirsten Anker and Mark AntakiPART IISubjects of the Anthropocene 4 The Anthropocene Archive: Human and Inhuman Subjects and Sediments Kathleen Birrell5 We, Earthbound People: Constituent Power in Entangled Times Daniel Matthews6 Chastened Humanism and/or Necrotic Anthropocene: Transcendence toward Less Ira AllenPART IIILandscapes of Hope and Despair 7 Biodiversity: The Neglected Lens for Reimagining Property, Responsibility, and Law for the Anthropocene Paul J. Govind and Michelle Lim8 The Law of the Sea: Oceans, Ships, and the Anthropocene Renisa Mawani9 Ocean Acidification and the Anthropocene: An Emergency Response Prue Taylor10 Outer Space in the Anthropocene Emily RayPART IVEcological and Earth Systems Law 11 Taming Gaia 2.0: Earth System Law in the Ruptured Anthropocene Rakhyun E. Kim12 Collapse or Sustainability?: Ecological Integrity as a Fundamental Norm of Law Klaus Bosselmann13 Making Ecological Integrity Human-Inclusive in the Anthropocene Geoffrey GarverPART VDignity and Human Rights 14 The Anthropocene and Human Rights: A New Context and the Need to Revisit Collective Human Concerns Karen Morrow15 Dignity in the Anthropocene Erin Daly and Dina LupinPART VIRegulating Nature and Nature Regulates 16 Regulating Nature and the Rule of Law Han Somsen17 Solar Geoengineering and the Challenge of Governing Multiple Risks in the Anthropocene Kerryn Brent18 The Transformative Power of Receptivity: Building a Smart Political Energy Grid in Response to Planetary Ecological Crisis Romand Coles and Lia HaroPART VIIImagination and Utopia 19 Imagined Utopias Benjamin J. Richardson20 Myth for the Anthropocene Peter D. Burdon and James Martel21 The Nomos of Creativity in the Anthropocene Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and Lachlan Hoy22 Learning Ecological Law: Innovating Legal Curriculum and Pedagogy Kate Galloway and Nicole GrahamPART VIIIPost-Script 23 Law, Responsibility, and the Capitalocene: In Search of New Arts of Living Sally Wheeler and Anna Grear in Conversation with Peter BurdonIndex

"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