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The Great Adaptation
Technique, Environment, and the Law on the Globe
9781035345182 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely book puts forward a novel understanding of the ongoing relationship between the law, regulation, technology and science with the goal of helping to mitigate and adapt to the severe environmental and societal impacts of climate change.
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This timely book puts forward a novel understanding of the ongoing relationship between the law, regulation, technology and science with the goal of helping to mitigate and adapt to the severe environmental and societal impacts of climate change.
Guilherme Pratti demonstrates the pivotal role of the law in the struggle against climate change and introduces a novel understanding of the ‘technique phenomenon’, whereby legislation can shape the main features of sustainable development and steer its attainable achievements. Through exploration of international environmental law and the European Green Deal, Pratti illustrates how climate change can be framed as a legal challenge. He emphasises how regulation is resulting in the Earth being classed as a legal object, which, in turn, has the potential to aid future environmental global governance.
The Great Adaptation is an invaluable resource for students and academics in international environmental and climate law, philosophy of technology, science, regulation, legal theory, and the sociology of globalisation. This book is also of interest to policymakers and those wishing to understand the philosophical aspects of legal measures against climate change.
Guilherme Pratti demonstrates the pivotal role of the law in the struggle against climate change and introduces a novel understanding of the ‘technique phenomenon’, whereby legislation can shape the main features of sustainable development and steer its attainable achievements. Through exploration of international environmental law and the European Green Deal, Pratti illustrates how climate change can be framed as a legal challenge. He emphasises how regulation is resulting in the Earth being classed as a legal object, which, in turn, has the potential to aid future environmental global governance.
The Great Adaptation is an invaluable resource for students and academics in international environmental and climate law, philosophy of technology, science, regulation, legal theory, and the sociology of globalisation. This book is also of interest to policymakers and those wishing to understand the philosophical aspects of legal measures against climate change.
Critical Acclaim
‘Guilherme Pratti’s exploration of the intersection between jurisprudence and technology opens a new door into the political philosophy of engineering and technology. His argument is especially pertinent as we realize the limitations of ethics in grappling with the deepening complexities of life in the engineered and engineering world.’
– Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA
– Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Contents
Contents
Preface
1 Introducing the question concerning law and technique: an
unexpected conversation
PART I THE LAW: TECHNIQUE OR TECHNOLOGY?
2 Philosophy of technique: the constitutive role of law
within the modern technique phenomenon
3 Law, technique and technology
PART II TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY’S CHALLENGE:
THE NEXUS LAW-TECHNIQUE-NATURE
4 The great acceleration: technique, globalisation, and
climate change
5 The role of law and the Green Deal’s total mobilisation
PART III AN EVER-INCREASING TECHNICAL
PHENOMENON: TECHNIQUE,
ENVIRONMENT, AND LAW IN AN
INTERCONNECTED WORLD
6 Law’s overarching touch: heights and depths
7 Ingraining reality in law: a climate-changing tempo
8 Constituting the ongoing quest for adaptation: concluding remarks
References
Preface
1 Introducing the question concerning law and technique: an
unexpected conversation
PART I THE LAW: TECHNIQUE OR TECHNOLOGY?
2 Philosophy of technique: the constitutive role of law
within the modern technique phenomenon
3 Law, technique and technology
PART II TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY’S CHALLENGE:
THE NEXUS LAW-TECHNIQUE-NATURE
4 The great acceleration: technique, globalisation, and
climate change
5 The role of law and the Green Deal’s total mobilisation
PART III AN EVER-INCREASING TECHNICAL
PHENOMENON: TECHNIQUE,
ENVIRONMENT, AND LAW IN AN
INTERCONNECTED WORLD
6 Law’s overarching touch: heights and depths
7 Ingraining reality in law: a climate-changing tempo
8 Constituting the ongoing quest for adaptation: concluding remarks
References
