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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, edited by Michelle Lim Springer, 2019, 245 pp, €124.79 hb, €96.29 ebk ISBN 9789811390647 hb, 9789811390654 ebk

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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, edited by Michelle Lim Springer, 2019, 245 pp, €124.79 hb, €96.29 ebk ISBN 9789811390647 hb, 9789811390654 ebk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2020

Phillipa McCormack
Phillipa McCormack*
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School of Law, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania (Australia)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , November 2020 , pp. 617 - 621
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2 E.g., Balmford, A., Wild Hope: On the Front Lines of Conservation Success (University of Chicago Press, 2018)Google Scholar.

3 International Commission on Stratigraphy, ‘Working Group on the “Anthropocene”’, 21 May 2019, available at: http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working-groups/anthropocene.

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5 E.g., Kotzé, L.J. & French, D., ‘The Anthropocentric Ontology of International Environmental Law and the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards an Ecocentric Rule of Law in the Anthropocene’ (2018) 7(1) Global Journal of Comparative Law, pp. 5–36CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Regional and domestic laws are addressed in chapters on Latin America (Ch. 2); China (Ch. 3); Japan (Ch. 6); India (Chs 14 and 17); and South Africa (Ch. 18).

7 E.g., Balint, P.J. et al. , Wicked Environmental Problems: Managing Uncertainty and Conflict (Island Press, 2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, who define wicked problems as problems that are ‘characterized by a high degree of scientific uncertainty and a profound lack of agreement on values … [and] the absence of a perfect solution’: ibid., pp. ix, x.

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