{"product_id":"the-art-of-environmental-law-governing-with-aesthetics-9781509924608","title":"The Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnvironmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf your senses require a break from the quotidian bad news about our planet, I recommend this delightful book about beauty and environmental law. -- David Takacs, University of California Hastings College of the Law * Transnational Environmental Law *\u003cbr\u003eFew law books have as many illustrations as this one, few draw together so many disparate strands and few inspire the reader to reflect as thoroughly on how deeply the way we think and act, and therefore how the law is shaped, is affected by perceptions of which we are usually at best only half-aware.  It makes a persuasive case for paying more attention to aesthetics in thinking about the law. -- Colin T Reid, University of Dundee * Scottish Planning and Environmental Law *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a work of both breadth and detail, and in producing it Richardson blends the vision of a landscape artist with the focus of a miniature painter … \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Environmental Law\u003c\/i\u003e truly is an impressive work … This is a book that will support multiple readings, for its richness is lost in a single turn through its pages. -- Emily Barritt * Journal of Environmental Law *\u003cbr\u003eBenjamin Richardson’s \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Environmental Law\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating overview that is remarkably readable despite its considerable length. Indeed, its greatest strength is its interdisciplinarity. Richardson draws on studies of environmental law and landscape management, biodiversity conservation, museum practices, advertising, ecotourism, environmental restoration, land art, and environmental activism, as well as philosophical environmental aesthetics. The result is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the many different avenues through which aesthetic values, broadly construed, can enter into the development and application of environmental law … For those working in the field, Richardson’s call for the development of more effective means of adjudicating aesthetic disputes will be a welcome endorsement of the practical value of philosophical contributions to environmental aesthetics and conservation. -- Jennifer Welchman * Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art of Environmental Law: Governing with Aesthetics\u003c\/i\u003e covers a great deal of ground. Richardson artfully weaves discussions of broad and complex environmental challenges with personal anecdotes and interesting tales. * Eliza Williams, Alternative Law Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I FOUNDATIONS 1. Environmental Aesthetics and Art  I. Taking Aesthetics Seriously II. Outline of the Book  III. The Concept of the Aesthetic  IV. Environmental Aesthetics  V. Art and the Environment  VI. Leveraging Change  VII. Conclusion  2. Aesthetics and Environmental Law I. Law and Aesthetics  II. The Making of Environmental Law  III. Environmental Policy Discourse  IV. Environmental Regulation  V. Nationalising Nature  VI. Conclusion 8 3. Governance Challenges  I. Orientation  II. Codifying Beauty  III. Competing Values  IV. Biased Aesthetics  V. Absent Aesthetics  VI. Art of Seduction    PART II STORIES 4. Vanquished Nature  I. Faking Nature  II. Domesticating Nature  III. Looks that Kill: Persecuting the Beautiful  IV. Museums for Nature’s Relics  V. Out of Sight, Out of Mind  VI. Conclusion  5. Corporate Greenwashing  I. Orientation  II. Figurative CSR Discourse  III. Aesthetics and Corporate Communications  IV. Regulating Green Illusions  V. Conclusions 6. Ecological Restoration  I. Aesthetics of Nature’s Damage and Recovery  II. Post-Mining Rehabilitation  III. Ecosystem Restoration  IV. Restorative Art  V. Conclusion  7. Climate Change  I. The Issues  II. Aesthetics and Climate Change  III. Climate Art and Activism  IV. Climate Change Mitigation  V. Climate Change Adaptation  VI. Climate Engineering    PART III ASPIRATIONS 8. Critical Aesthetics  I. Law and Curating Aesthetics  II. Counter Aesthetics  III. Social Aesthetics  IV. Aesthetics of Engagement and Vulnerability  V. Adjudicating Aesthetics  VI. 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