Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment a... - 9781138937543

Taylor & Francis

Legal and Political Challenges of Governing the Environment and Climate ChangeRuling Nature\nAuthor(s): Gary Wickham, Jo-Ann Goodie\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138937543, 978-1138937543\nSynopsis\nThe environment has not always been protected by law. It was not until the middle of the 20th century that the environment came to be understood as an entity in need of special care, and the law-politics duo firmly fixed its focus on this issue.\n\nIn this book Wickham and Goodie tell the story of how law and politics first came upon the environment as an object in need of special attention. They outline the unlikely intersection of aesthetics and science that made the environment into the matter of great concern it is today. The book describes the way private common-law strategies and public-law legislative strategies have approached the task of protecting the environment, and explore the greatest environmental c.