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Title: | Where to from here? From law to place and back again | Contributor(s): | Bartel, Robyn (author)![]() |
Publication Date: | 2021 | DOI: | 10.4337/9781788977203.00048 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30827 | Abstract: | Our space in the Universe - planet Earth - and our continued place on it, are currently challenged by human activities, particularly those governed by ontologies of human entitlement and exceptionalism, and despite decades of environmental laws tasked with limiting anthropogenic impact and protecting non-human life and systems. Successive regulatory failures and short-comings, supplemented and compounded by sub-optimal human behaviours, suggest that anthropocentric law may not be best placed to achieve the aims desired and engender the necessary shift in thinking required. Notwithstanding their environmental deterministic connotations, natural laws (Smith 2010), place laws (Bartel 2018), that acknowledge the influence of the biophysical world and of geography, and which reflect relational-material appreciations, and architecture (Lessig 1998), as here extended to moral architecture, may have potential. These more plural geocentric (Lynn 1998) and also omnicentric (Charpleix 2020) approaches may be better suited to answering the complex social and ecological questions of the Anthropocene, given that they decentre the human and provide greater recognition of non-human agency. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Handbook on Space, Place and Law, p. 382-400 | Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing Limited | Place of Publication: | Cheltenham, United Kingdom | ISBN: | 9781788977203 9781788977197 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440601 Cultural geography | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 190205 Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives) | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | WorldCat record: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1249472904 | Editor: | Editor(s): Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter |
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Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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