scholarly journals Transnational Environmental Law's Missing People

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Affolder
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Legal Scholarship ◽  
The Future ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Roll Back ◽  
Individual Professional

AbstractLegal scholars rely heavily on vocabularies of ‘actors’, ‘agents’, and ‘experts’ to account for the fact that law does not develop by itself. However, the identities, idiosyncrasies, and individual professional contributions of law's people are rarely illuminated. This article suggests that the relative absence of people in transnational legal scholarship helps to explain some of its gaps. The task of bringing ‘human actors back on stage’ creates some new opportunities for transnational environmental law scholarship. It invites attention to both dominant and excluded voices. It offers a way of bridging the gap between the bureaucratic language of law and its lived reality. It also provides an understanding of why, despite ferocious attempts to roll back the advances of environmental law in some places, many scholars and practitioners find reason to be optimistic about the future of environmental law.

scholarly journals Mapping post-Brexit environmental law

ERA Forum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-665
Author(s):  
Colin T. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
The Future ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Future Position ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe UK’s withdrawal from the EU will not bring about immediate changes to the substance of environmental law in the UK, but that law will become easier to change. The future position is complicated by devolution within the UK, where differing policy objectives on continuing alignment with the EU and weaknesses in the inter-governmental structures are causing problems. Environmental principles are being given legal recognition and new structures for environmental governance being created for each nation. These include environmental watchdogs that go some of the way to making up for the loss of the oversight provided by the EU institutions.

Social transnationalism in an unsettled continent

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Favell ◽  
Ettore Recchi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Space ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
The Future ◽  
Roll Back

Introducing the collection and the EUCROSS survey on which it is based, the chapter argues for a distinct focus on growing social transnationalism in Europe, despite the widespread gloom about the political fortune of the European Union. Everyday cross-border practices, both physical and virtual, continue to build a social space beyond nation states, despite political and legal roll-back. The chapter offers a survey of the recent sociological literature on social transnationalism in Europe, an overview of chapters, and a prognosis of social transnationalism in the future, beyond the present-day analysis of rising populism and resurgent nationalism.

The Implications of Brexit for Future EU Environmental Law and Policy

elni Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Céline Charveriat ◽  
Andrew Farmer
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Future ◽  
Overseas Country ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Overseas Territories ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Environmental Law And Policy

Brexit is an unprecedented event for the EU. No Member State has ever left the Union previously. At most, overseas territories with small populations have changed status, such as Greenland (Denmark) in 1985 and the Outermost Region Saint Barthélemy (France), which became an Overseas Country and Territory (OCT) in 2012. These cases may have limited lessons for the UK adapting its legislation post-Brexit, as they did not impact EU decision making and law and, therefore, are not precedents for the subject of this paper. There has been quite a lot of analysis on the possible consequences of Brexit for the future of UK environmental law. However, less attention has been given to the implications Brexit may have for the future of EU environmental law and policy. This paper presents some thoughts on this subject. It begins with a consideration of the impact of Brexit on the general political and economic atmosphere of EU environmental policy making. The paper then considers the issues of trade and the external border. Some specific policy areas are examined, including chemicals, climate policy and agriculture. The paper ends by considering the implications of a possible future dispute mechanism with the UK.

Representing Complex Places: A Narrative Approach

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 665-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Uprichard ◽  
David Byrne
Keyword(s):  
System Change ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Systems ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Generative Mechanisms ◽  
Human Actors

The authors argue that narratives—the plural being very important—are crucial for the representation of complex urban spaces. They do this by drawing on first-hand empirical examples from a previous examination of people's understanding of ‘postindustrial transformation’ from the past through the present to the future, and earlier work on children's understanding of their own places in the present and the future. In so doing, they propose that the use of narratives must be part of the repertoire of approaches used to represent complex urban systems. This does not imply an abandonment of interest in or search for causal generative mechanisms in system change. Rather, it is a recognition that narratives enable human actors to express the meaning that underlies their own agency as part of their account of the trajectories of places.

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