Research methods in environmental law : a handbook /

This timely Handbook brings together a collection of innovative interdisciplinary approaches to explore the use of research methods in environmental law. With chapters on topics ranging from sustainability, climate change and activism to education, actor-network theory and non-human ontologies, this...

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Group Author: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas; Brooks, Victoria
Published: Edward Elgar Publishing,
Publisher Address: Cheltenham, UK :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Handbooks of research methods in law
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Summary: This timely Handbook brings together a collection of innovative interdisciplinary approaches to explore the use of research methods in environmental law. With chapters on topics ranging from sustainability, climate change and activism to education, actor-network theory and non-human ontologies, this Handbook provides a theoretically informed analysis of methodological approaches to this important field. Taking into consideration issues such as non-human agency, the Anthropocene, and spatial and material turns in law this book builds on key concepts in the subject. The book also considers how
Carrier Form: xx, 579 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781784712563
1784712566
Index Number: K3585
CLC: D912.6
Call Number: D912.6/R432-5
Contents: Foregrounding vulnerability : materiality's porous affectability as a methodological platform / Anna Grear -- How to think about 'nature-society' interactions in environmental law 'in action'? / Betina Lange -- Abstracting method : taking legal abstractions seriously / Andrea Pavoni -- Actor-network theory and the empirical critique of environmental law: unpacking the bioprospecting debates / Emilie Cloatre -- Speculative entropy: dynamism, hyperchaos and the fourth dimension in environmental law practice / Lucy Finchett-Maddock -- Critical environmental law as method in the anthropocene / A