Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies

Edited by Sara De Vido, Professor of International Law, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Deborah Russo, Professor of International Law, University of Florence and Enzamaria Tramontana, Professor of International Law, University of Palermo, Italy

‘This unique, precious and beautiful blue-green planet is under assault by a global economy built on the exploitation of Nature and people, especially people of color, Indigenous peoples, women and girls and those who are part of more than one of these communities. We are all part of an insidious global experiment, undertaken without consent, in which our bodies are exposed to a toxic stew of chemicals and microplastics. This is but one of a host of chronic environmental emergencies described in this timely and erudite book. The contributors provocatively challenge existing paradigms of environmental law and human rights law, arguing convincingly that chronic environmental emergencies must be unmasked, analyzed through an intersectional lens, and ultimately addressed through a combination of remediation, reparation, and prevention.’

• ContentsForeword ixGendering International Legal Responses to Environmental ChronicEmergencies: Introduction xiSara De Vido, Deborah Russo and Enzamaria TramontanaPART I CONCEPTUALIZING ENVIRONMENTAL CHRONICEMERGENCIES1 Feminist legal methods and environmental chronicemergencies: challenging the anthropocentric andandrocentric international legal system 2Sara De Vido2 Moving beyond an approach based on crisis and disasters toaddress environmental chronic emergencies 24Deborah Russo3 Environmental chronic emergencies, women’s inequality, andinternational law 43Enzamaria Tramontana4 Taking the long view: what environmental chronicemergencies require of states 66Karen MorrowPART II ENVIRONMENTAL CHRONIC EMERGENCIESACROSS TIME5 A fear of falling? The mineshaft as ‘environmental chronicemergency’ in modern Cornwall 89Timothy Cooper6 Minamata disease as an environmental chronic emergency:institutional failures and global lessons 109Shuichi Furuya7 Environmental chronic emergencies and the challenge oftemporality 129David M. Scott8 Environmental chronic emergencies and future generations 148Laura MagiPART III ENVIRONMENTAL CHRONIC EMERGENCIES INCONTEXT9 Environmental chronic emergencies, slow-onset events andother anthropocentric dilemmas in times of climate crisis: theneed for a re-conception 167Monica Feria-Tinta10 States and corporations in the context of environmentalchronic emergencies: responsibility and liability at thecrossroad 184Patricio Barbirotto11 Due diligence obligations and environmental chronicemergencies 205Björnstjern Baade12 The duty to cooperate in addressing the adverse impact ofenvironmental chronic emergencies: ensuring gender-sensitiveresponses 226Martina Sardo13 Transforming slow violence into social justice: the quest forreparation for environmental chronic emergencies 250Francesca TammonePART IV CONCLUDING REMARKS14 Conclusion 274Meghan Campbell