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dc.contributor.author | Martin, Paul Vincent | en |
local.source.editor | Editor(s): Michael I. Jeffery and Jeremy Firestone and Karen Bubna-Litic | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-22T12:11:00Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Biodiversity, Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide, p. 49-65 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9780521885034 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1987 | - |
dc.description.abstract | I begin with a claim that is to me self-evident, but that does seem to reflect legal scholarship: 'Law is a behavioural discipline'. Its function is to shape how people act. It shares this with economics, marketing, political science, and psychology (to name but a few). Although the literature of the law is populated with examples of weird, wonderful, and frightening aspects of behaviour, legal mainstream literature rapidly discusses the causes of (or strategies to alter) behaviour, perhaps with the exception of some arguments about the deterrent value of punishment (particularly the death penalty). The focus of that literature is legal instruments and legal interpretation. It contains very little enlightenment about the behavioural effectiveness of law, or the strategies through which desired outcomes could be more efficiently achieved. Neither legal practice nor legal theory are engaged in a scientific discourse about the mechanisms through which (for example) punishment (or the fear of it) works, its limits, or the ways in which public information about rules or judgments impacts within the general community to shape hopes, fears, and resultant behaviour. The idea that one might trade off policing investment for education, or manage transaction costs better to allow for more effective use of resource, is a discussion that is largely foreign to the mainstream legal literature. | en |
dc.language | en | en |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Biodiversity, Conservation, Law and Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IUCN Academy of Environmental Law research studies | en |
dc.relation.isversionof | 1 | en |
dc.title | The Changing Role of Law in the Pursuit of Sustainability | en |
dc.type | Book Chapter | en |
dc.subject.keywords | Environmental and Natural Resources Law | en |
local.contributor.firstname | Paul Vincent | en |
local.subject.for2008 | 180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Law | en |
local.subject.seo2008 | 940405 Law Reform | en |
local.identifier.epublications | vtls086383904 | en |
local.profile.school | School of Law | en |
local.profile.email | pmartin9@une.edu.au | en |
local.output.category | B1 | en |
local.record.place | au | en |
local.record.institution | University of New England | en |
local.identifier.epublicationsrecord | pes:5903 | en |
local.publisher.place | New York, United States of America | en |
local.identifier.totalchapters | 30 | en |
local.format.startpage | 49 | en |
local.format.endpage | 65 | en |
local.contributor.lastname | Martin | en |
dc.identifier.staff | une-id:pmartin9 | en |
local.profile.orcid | 0000-0002-0243-2654 | en |
local.profile.role | author | en |
local.identifier.unepublicationid | une:2053 | en |
dc.identifier.academiclevel | Academic | en |
local.title.maintitle | The Changing Role of Law in the Pursuit of Sustainability | en |
local.output.categorydescription | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | en |
local.relation.url | http://books.google.com.au/books?id=kGtLgVBkY04C&pg=PA49 | en |
local.relation.url | http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an41735382 | en |
local.search.author | Martin, Paul Vincent | en |
local.uneassociation | Unknown | en |
local.year.published | 2008 | en |
Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Law |
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