Reimagining international environmental law for the Anthropocene: An earth system law perspective

IF 4.4 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Louise du Toit , Louis J. Kotzé
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Abstract

Concerns have been raised regarding the ability of international environmental law to respond to potentially irreversible earth system transformations in the Anthropocene. We argue that in order for international environmental law to have the capacity to respond to the socio-ecological challenges of the Anthropocene, it should embrace an earth system perspective. Earth system law, which is grounded in an earth system perspective, has been proposed as a new epistemic framework to facilitate the legal transformations necessary to respond to such socio-ecological challenges. With reference to recent developments in the international environmental law domain, we discuss the ways in which international environmental law currently fails to align with such a perspective and the types of considerations that international environmental law should reflect in order to be more responsive to a transforming earth system and, thus, better fit-for-purpose in the Anthropocene.

重新构想人类世的国际环境法:地球系统法的视角
人们对国际环境法是否有能力应对人类世中可能不可逆转的地球系统变化表示关注。我们认为,为了使国际环境法有能力应对人类世的社会生态挑战,它应该包含一个地球系统的观点。以地球系统视角为基础的地球系统法已被提出作为一种新的认识框架,以促进应对此类社会生态挑战所需的法律变革。关于国际环境法领域的最新发展,我们讨论了国际环境法目前未能与这种观点保持一致的方式,以及国际环境法应该反映的考虑类型,以便更好地响应不断变化的地球系统,从而更好地适应人类世的目的。
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