Critical Reflections on Human Rights and the Environment series – serie

This innovative book provides a comprehensive articulation and analysis of the failure of existing climate, environmental and biodiversity regimes and laws to respond to the global polycrisis. Rosemary Lyster, Danielle Celermajer and Phillipa McCormack propose a radical relational transformation in the form of Multispecies Climate Justice, including procedural justice. Chapters systematically link responsibility for the destruction of Earth others to the rise of neoliberalism and the failure of dominant systems of law to address the problems at this structural level. The authors build on Indigenous knowledge, relational ontologies and evolutionary developmental biology to articulate a novel, critical methodology for explicitly recognising Earth others in statutory re-drafting and the reimagining of climate and biodiversity laws. They critique the dominant legal approaches, presenting Multispecies Climate Justice as an alternative metanarrative for law and a transformative way forward. Multispecies Climate Justice, Disasters and Responsibility is an essential resource for academics and students in law and development, climate and environmental law, human rights and climate change as well as politics and public policy. It is also an informative read for activists, practitioners, professionals and policymakers involved in climate justice.

In this thought-provoking work, Mary Warnock explores what it is to own things, and the differences in our attitude to what we own and what we do not.Starting from the philosophical standpoints of Locke and Hume, the ownership of gardens is presented as a prime example, exploring both private and common ownership, historically and autobiographically. The author concludes that, besides pleasure and pride, ownership brings a sense of responsibility for what is owned and a fundamental question is brought to light: can we feel the same responsibility for what we do not, and never can, own? Applying this question to the natural world and the planet as a whole, a realistic and gradualist perspective is offered on confronting global environmental degradation. Critical Reflections on Ownership examines the effect of the Romantic Movement on our attitudes to nature and is a salient commentary on the history of ideas.Providing an accessible entrance into moral philosophy and its practical applications, this book is an invaluable source for students in the fields of politics and philosophy. Academics interested in conceptions of ownership, and in the interface between philosophy, morality and politics, will find this deeply considered insight to be a stimulating read.