Developing Law for the Anthropocene: Exploring the Content of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism

Melanie Murcott

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Exploring the Content of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism

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Page Range:: 132–170

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004509405_005

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Abstract

The fourth chapter of A Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism unpacks the content of a legal theory of transformative environmental constitutionalism. It invites the judiciary, in fulfilling its constitutional mandate to pursue social justice, to engage with the law in a radical manner that recognises the links between environmental degradation in a time of socio-ecological crises, and the plight of marginalised, disadvantaged, and vulnerable people. Doing so could result in the development of law for the Anthropocene. The chapter explains, first, that transformative environmental constitutionalism entails that environmental law disputes ought to be framed in a justice-oriented manner that adopts a socio-ecological systems perspective that shows an appreciation of the interconnectedness of social, environmental, and climate injustice. Next, the chapter explains that transformative environmental constitutionalism calls for purposive and substantive rights-based adjudication of environmental law disputes that: (i) engages with the content and import of relevant justice-oriented provisions in environmental legislation; (ii) develops the normative content of the environmental right provided for in section 24 of the Constitution; and (iii) recognises the mutually reinforcing and interrelated nature of the environmental right and other relevant substantive rights concerned with the flourishing of humans and the environment.

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Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism

ISBN:: 9789004509405

出版社:: Brill | Nijhoff

印刷出版日期:: 29 Sep 2022

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  - International Law: Regional Perspectives
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Chapter 4 Developing Law for the Anthropocene

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