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dc.contributor.authorShepheard, Marken
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Paulen
local.source.editorEditor(s): Brad Jessup and Kim Rubensteinen
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-18T16:13:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental Discourses in Public and International Law, p. 71-95en
dc.identifier.isbn9781107019423en
dc.identifier.isbn9781139094610en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11923-
dc.description.abstractThere is a tension between the idea that property rights give rise to minimal legal accountability, and alternatively that property rights holders should exercise care in the enjoyment of their rights. This tension provides a basis for a discourse about stewardship and the practical meaning of a statutory duty of care to protect the environment. The discourse of stewardship and care that ordinarily occurs at the local or national level reflects sustainable development principles advanced in international agreements. The tension created by competing understandings and expectations of property is reflected in administrative rules that seem to make stewardship a legal obligation. These new rules mask the competing meanings embodied in the language used in international environmental dialogue, but in embedding competing meanings of terms in the legal discourse they potentially sow the seeds of future conflicts. This is in part because the pursuit of expanded stewardship responsibility is occurring alongside the creation of ever-broader legally secure property rights to the environment. The tensions are given a public expression in the heated 'farmers' property right' movement, which by 2010 is becoming increasingly strident. Thus there are three parallel forms of discourse about stewardship for natural resources which interact: formalised political discourse about desired norms, spilling over from international to parliamentary contexts; the inchoate legal discourse related particularly to the implementation of instruments; and the informal political discourse of political activism. All three discourses share characteristics that would be readily identified by a student of Foucault. The symbolic meaning of the language is not shared, and contests about meaning are also contests over power. The form of the discourse is specific to the context and follows 'rules of engagement' specific to that context for discourse. In this chapter we shall consider the interaction between the two formalised discourses that demonstrate competition. The competition we observe is complex. The different contexts and the resulting expectations of the participants in the discourse result in different basic assumptions, including assumptions about the specificity of meaning to be attached to the symbolic words. A contest between world views about humans and the environment, of the type identified by Dryzek, is evident in both discourses. An important distinction between the legal and the policy contexts is that the meaning of symbols that will emerge eventually through formal legal processes will determine which of the categories within Dryzek's taxonomy will emerge as dominant in legal practice. This is a power conflict over the specific meaning to be assigned to a particular set of linguistic symbols.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental Discourses in Public and International Lawen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesConnecting International Law with Public Lawen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titleThe political discourse of land stewardship reframed as a statutory dutyen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/CBO9781139094610.007en
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental and Natural Resources Lawen
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironment Policyen
local.contributor.firstnameMarken
local.contributor.firstnamePaulen
local.subject.for2008180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Lawen
local.subject.for2008160507 Environment Policyen
local.subject.seo2008960799 Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards not elsewhere classifieden
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086623349en
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Lawen
local.profile.emailmshephe6@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailpmartin9@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20120912-14075en
local.publisher.placeCambridge, United Kingdomen
local.identifier.totalchapters18en
local.format.startpage71en
local.format.endpage95en
local.identifier.scopusid84903793880en
local.series.number3en
local.contributor.lastnameShephearden
local.contributor.lastnameMartinen
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dc.identifier.staffune-id:pmartin9en
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dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleThe political discourse of land stewardship reframed as a statutory dutyen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157367534en
local.search.authorShepheard, Marken
local.search.authorMartin, Paulen
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local.year.published2012en
local.subject.for2020440704 Environment policyen
local.subject.for2020480203 Environmental lawen
local.subject.seo2020190299 Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classifieden
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