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Purdy, Jedediah --- "Environmentalism for the next economy" [2017] ELECD 737; in Scanlan, K. Melissa (ed), "Law and Policy for a New Economy" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 50

Book Title: Law and Policy for a New Economy

Editor(s): Scanlan, K. Melissa

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786434517

Section: Chapter 3

Section Title: Environmentalism for the next economy

Author(s): Purdy, Jedediah

Number of pages: 20

Abstract/Description:

For environmental law to contribute to a more egalitarian and cooperative economy, it will have to be recast in a way that gives a central place to the organizing concerns of environmental justice: the distributive effects of environmental law and policy, and the constitutive question of which problems count as environmental, and whose conception of a good life in the natural world environmental law advances. This chapter locates that goal within two developments that have shifted the field more generally: the renewed recognition of the depth and importance of inequality and the emergence of “the Anthropocene” as a characterization of a transformed relationship between human beings and the rest of the planet.