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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter d burdon”
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  • Earth Jurisprudence

    Private Property and the Environment

    by Peter D. Burdon ...
    Series series Law, Justice and Ecology
    The idea of human dominion over nature has become entrenched by the dominant rights-based interpretation of private property. Accordingly, nature is not attributed any inherent value and becomes merely the matter of a human property relationship. Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment explores how an alternative conception of property might be instead grounded in the ecocentric ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Anthropocene

    New Trajectories in Law

    by Peter D. Burdon ...
    Series series New Trajectories in Law
    This book introduces the concept of the Anthropocene and examines its importance for environmental legal thinking, research and practice.Two main arguments are explored. The first is that much of the scholarship in environmental law that addresses the Anthropocene does not respond to Earth systems science or the difference in scale as we move from local to global systems. Key examples include a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt

    Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

    by Peter Burdon ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
    Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral. This book uses Hannah Arendt’s text Eichmann in Jerusalem to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Exploring Wild Law

    The philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence

    Edited by Peter Burdon ...
    Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene

    Edited by Peter D. Burdon, James Martel ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.The Anthropocene is a “crisis of the earth system.” This book addresses its implications for law and legal thinking in the twenty-first century. Unpacking the challenges of the Anthropocene for advocates of ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Quality Life

    by June Burdon ...
    Diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, June commenced this final challenge - to write her memoirs. Robbed of the ability to speak she started typing a story or two a day. Eighty-six thousand words in all, the keyboard rattled away at the start but finished with single, lonely clicks. Not one to be silenced, in her final days she composed haikus in her bed and shared them via her sight board. June ... Read more

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  • Climate Leviathan

    A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

    by Joel Wainwright, Geoff Mann ...
    How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

    by Allen Thompson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    We live during a crucial period of human history on Earth. Anthropogenic environmental changes are occurring on global scales at unprecedented rates. Despite a long history of environmental intervention, never before has the collective impact of human behaviors threatened all of the major bio-systems on the planet. Decisions we make today will have significant consequences for the basic conditions ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Environmental Ethics

    An Overview for the Twenty-First Century

    by Robin Attfield ...
    In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers.The book introduces environmental problems and environmental ethics and surveys theories of the sources of the problems. Attfield also ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Keywords for Environmental Studies

    Edited by Joni Adamson, William A. Gleason, David Pellow ...
    Series Book 3 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, quantitative and qualitative research, debates, and histories for Environmental and Nature StudiesUnderstandings of “nature” have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Green Political Thought

    by Andrew Dobson ...
    This highly acclaimed introduction to green political thought is now available in a new edition, having been fully revised and updated to take into account the areas which have grown in importance since the third edition was published.Andrew Dobson describes and assesses the political ideology of ‘ecologism’, and compares this radical view of remedies for the environmental crisis with the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Climate Change

    by Mike Hulme ...
    Series series Key Ideas in Geography
    Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future.In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from ... Read more

    $55.99 USD