Art of environmental law governing with aesthetics Benjamin J Richardson, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Tasmania.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Environmental Aesthetics and Art -- Aesthetics and Environmental Law -- Governance Challenges -- Vanquished Nature -- Corporate Greenwashing -- Ecological Restoration -- Climate Change -- Critical Aesthetics

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"Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Not only have aesthetic values shaped the making of environmental law, such law also governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene"--

Also published in print.

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