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Informationen zum Autor Brad Jessup teaches and researches at the Australian National University across the disciplines of law and geography. Kim Rubenstein is the Director of the Centre for International and Public Law at the ANU College of Law and the inaugural Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute at the Australian National University, Canberra. Klappentext How do dominant views and arguments about environmental problems traverse and connect international and public law? Zusammenfassung The dynamic and unpredictable nature of the environment makes environmental law a complex area. This collection of essays examines the development and application of environmental law and offers new insights relevant to legal and environmental policy specialists and students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: using environmental discourses to traverse public and international law Brad Jessup and Kim Rubenstein; Part I. Theories and Rights as Discourses in Environmental Law: 1. Justice for future generations: environment discourses, international law and climate change Peter Lawrence; 2. The journey of environmental justice through public and international law Brad Jessup; 3. The political discourse of land stewardship reframed as a statutory duty Mark Shepheard and Paul Martin; 4. Dephysicalisation and entitlement: legal and cultural discourses of place as property Nicole Graham; Part II. Discourses in Environmental Decisions: 5. Perspectives on discourse in international environmental law: expert knowledge and challenges to deliberative democracy Jaye Ellis; 6. Getting to yes: structuring and disciplining arguments for and against transgenic agricultural products in European Union authorisations Bettina Lange; 7. Nuclear narratives, environmental discourse and UK energy policy and legislation, 1970-2008 Elizabeth Rough; Part III. Environmental Discourses in Legal Institutions: 8. International courts and sustainable development: using old tools to shape a new discourse Tim Stephens; 9. The discourse of environmental security in the ASEAN context Kheng-Lian Koh; 10. Public participation in transboundary environmental impact assessment: closing the gap between international and public law? Simon Marsden; Part IV. Discourses in Climate Law: 11. Climate change: limits discourses at the interface of international law and environmental law Lee Godden; 12. The national interest or good international citizenship? Australia and its approach to international and public climate law Owen Cordes-Holland; 13. The Asia-Pacific partnership: a deepened market liberal model for the international climate regime? Jeffrey Mcgee and Ros Taplin; 14. Global gazing: viewing markets through the lens of emissions trading discourses Sanja Bogojevi¿; Part V. Discourses in the Commons: 15. Polar opposites: environmental discourses and management in Antarctica and the Arctic Donald R. Rothwell; 16. Heritage discourses Ben Boer and Stefan Gruber; 17. Environmental principles and social change in the ocean dumping regime: a case study of the disposal of carbon dioxide into the seabed Afshin Akhtarkhavari; 18. Environmental discourses in the ocean commons: the case of ocean fertilisation Julia Mayo-Ramsay; Concluding remarks: discourse versus strategy Thomas Pogge....