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When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide

The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Marie-Catherine Petersmann, The Netherlands) Petersmann, Marie-Catherine (Universiteit van Tilburg

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Conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights present delicate trade-offs when concerns for social and ecological justice are increasingly intertwined. This book retraces how the legal ordering of environmental protection evolved over time and progressively merged with human rights concerns, thereby leading to a synergistic framing of their relation. It explores the world-making effects this framing performed by establishing how 'humans' ought to relate to 'nature', and examines the role played by legislators, experts and adjudicators in (re)producing it. While it questions, contextualises and problematises how and why this dominant framing was construed, it also reveals how the conflicts that underpin this relationship - and the victims they affect - mainly remained unseen. The analysis critically evaluates the argumentative tropes and adjudicative strategies used in the environmental case-law of regional courts to understand how these conflicts are judicially mediated, thereby opening space for new modes of politics, legal imagination and representation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-10-27
Mått157 x 235 x 22 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Antal sidor316
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316515808

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Marie-Catherine Petersmann is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on non-anthropocentric normativities and modes of co-existence with nonhumans. It lies at the intersection of legal theory, ecological philosophy, and political ecology. She holds a Ph.D. and LLM in International and European Law from the European University Institute in Florence and an MA in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Part I. Constructing Synergies – Framing the Environment – Human Rights Interface: 1. Narratives of environmental and human rights protection – from a 'Pristine Wilderness' to a 'Human Environment'; 2. Horizons of synergy – adjudicating environmental and human rights protection; 3. Constructing and contesting anthropocentric synergies; 4. Countering the dominant frame – an account of trade-offs and tensions; Part II. Conflict Mediation through Universalisation: 5. The general interest as universalisation strategy; 6. Expert knowledge as universalisation strategy.

'We know that environmental pollution harms human lives, but can environmental protection also harm? Marie Petersmann incisively shows us that not all environmentalisms are alike, and that those privileged by international law and courts move between a narrow range, from conservative neo-Malthusianism to liberal sustainable development. These environmentalisms code perceptions of human-nature relationships, of how to know the world and be in it, and of evidence and expertise, that crowd out what Joan Martinez-Alier calls 'the environmentalism of the poor'. In analysis both powerful and poignant, Petersmann dissects the development of this mainstream of environmental protection, and who and what it excludes, and opens paths to new possibilities. A terrific and essential book.' Surabhi Ranganathan, University of Cambridge