Who can give me up-to-date source references on non-European legal philosophical discussions, dealing with anthropogenic climate change (e.g. references to conference proceedings or similar)?
Thank you!
Eckardt
This is a good starting point Eckardt. It provides brief summaries of views on climate change by global region. You can identify the ones you wish to get more detail on and then search for specific philosophical material for that region.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_opinion_by_country
Then there is this site for the Philosophy of Climate Change with downloadable papers and links to authors
https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Philosophy_Of_Climate_Change
and, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-climate/
Dear Eckardt
If you're looking for an introduction to an emerging economy perspective, my PhD thesis might offer a starting point (see attached). I looked at South Africa's legal and policy response to climate change.
https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/28118/thesis_law_2018_steenkamp_lee_ann.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1
I have various other publications. You are welcome to inbox me if you need access to full texts.
Best wishes,
Lee-Ann
Dear Lee-Ann,
thank you very much for your very interesting thesis (wonderful dedication, by the way) and the kind offer with a view to further of your publications! I will be very happy to return to it once I have gained an initial overview of the source situation in the course of the year.
I am a lateral entrant in the field of anthropogenic climate change and have initially approached it from a legal philosophical perspective, which, however, has strong continental European references (especially to Gustav Radbruch). The paper will be published in the next few days. A central thesis is that we may need new legal ethical categories in order to be able to grasp state and supranational hesitancy towards climate change in a normatively more precise way. In the future, I would like to verify this in a second study with a view to non-European concepts of legal ethics.
Best regards
Eckardt
Dear Eckardt,
I'm not really sure what you are looking for exactly and for what purpose, particularly since most of the responses to sustainability and the environment, other than those long embedded in traditional law and cultures of the world's 6,000 legal cultures (that each have proscriptions for interaction with the local environments -- take a look at Marvin Harris' classic on "Cows, Pigs and Witches" on sacred cows, pork taboos, etc. and their eco-system implications) are now driven by global institutions to which all countries belong (the UN, World Bank, regional development banks, etc.). What you might find interesting is a piece that I wrote with a Vietnamese colleague on how most small countries find themselves caught in a "prisoners' dilemma" with regard to development and sustainability that leads them to override all of their traditional laws and sustainability goals in order to "protect" themselves. Take a look at this piece:
“The Global Prisoners’ Dilemma of Unsustainability: Why Sustainable
Development Cannot Be Achieved Without Resource Security and
Eliminating the Legacies of Colonialism,” with Nguyen Nhu Hue.
Sustainability: Science, Practice and
Policy, Spring, 2011, Volume 7, No. 1. You also might like this one that I wrote with the same colleague: “Accounting for Threats to Sustainable Development: An Indicator for Holding
NGOs and International Organizations Accountable to Creating the
Context for Sustainable Development,” with Hue Nhu Nguyen, Consilience, Issue 17, 2017. I think I have put both on my Research Gate page. Best,
David
Dear David,
Thank you very much for these highly interesting hints and sources! Yes, I should perhaps further specify the intention of my query. In a recently published legal philosophy paper on the topic at hand, I try to exemplify whether and, if so, how state and supranational inaction in the face of contemporary international challenges (e.g., anthropogenic climate change) could be normatively assessed in a rational and transparent way, in particular to provide policy makers with additional guidance for the future. My approach so far is based on a 20th century German legal philosophical concept, the so-called Radbruch formula, which is in need of adaptation in this respect. In this context, I would like to broaden my normative view for further work, hence my request.
Thanks again and all the best,
Eckardt
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