Environmental Discourses in Public and International Law

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 Bogojević; 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.