Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene

• Main Author: Louis J Kotz , Kotz
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Hart Publishing Ltd 2016; Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Hart Publishing
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Climatic changes; Constitutional and Administrative Law; Constitutional law; Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources Law; Environmental; Environmental law, International; Environmental Studies; LAW; Public International Law; Socio-Legal Studies; Transnational Law
• ISBN: 1509907602; 9781509907601; 9781509907588; 1509907580; 1509907599; 9781509907595; 1509926798; 9781509926794
• DOI: 10.5040/9781509907601

There is persuasive evidence suggesting we are on the brink of human-induced ecological disaster that could change life on Earth as we know it. There is also a general consensus among scientists about the pace and extent of global ecological decay, including a realisation that humans are central to causing the global socio-ecological crisis. This new epoch has been called the Anthropocene. Considering the many benefits that constitutional environmental protection holds out in domestic legal orders, it is likely that a constitutionalised form of global environmental law and governance would be better able to counter the myriad exigencies of the Anthropocene. This book seeks to answer this central question: from the perspective of the Anthropocene, what is environmental constitutionalism and how could it be extrapolated to formulate a global framework? In answering this question, this book offers the first systematic conceptual framework for global environmental constitutionalism in the epoch of the Anthropocene.