Environmental Law Contrasting Ideas Nature Keith H. Hir… Paperback 9781316507575

Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of NatureA Constructivist Approach\nAuthor(s): Keith H. Hirokawa\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781316507575, 978-1316507575\nSynopsis\nLaw's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing that law has embedded discrete constructions of nature helps in understanding how humans value their relationship with nature. This book offers a scholarly examination of the manner in which nature is constructed through law, both in the 'hard' sense of directly regulating human activities that impact nature, and in the 'soft' manner in which law's ideas of nature influence and are influenced by behaviors, values, and prioriti.