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The role of sustainable development and the associated principles of environmental law and governance in the anthropocene / Jonathan Verschuuren -- Reimagining international environmental law in the anthropocene / Tim Stephens -- Doing time : the temporalities of environmental law / Benjamin Richardson -- Anthropocene, capitalocene, chthulucene? : re-encountering the subject of environmental law with Haraway and new materialism / Anna Grear -- Critical environmental law and the double register of the anthropocene : a biopolitical reading / Vito De Lucia -- Critical environmental law / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Materiality and the ontological turn in the anthropocene : establishing a dialogue between law, anthropology, and eco-philosophy / Saskia Vermeylen -- Global environmental governance in the anthropocene : setting and achieving global goals / Maria Ivanova and Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy -- Global environmental constitutionalism in the anthropocene / Louis Kotz -- Global justice in the anthropocene / Carmen Gonzalez -- The imperative of ecological integrity : conceptualising a fundamental legal norm for a new world system in the anthropocene / Klaus Bosselmann -- Of human responsibility : considering the human/environment relationship and ecosystems in the anthropocene / Karen Morrow -- The corporation and the anthropocene / Sally Wheeler -- Judging the anthropocene : transformative adjudication in the Anthropocene Epoch / Lynda Collins -- The emergence of transnational environmental law in the anthropocene / Jolene Lin -- The end of European Union environmental law : an environmental programme for the anthropocene / Han Somsen

1. Introduction -- I. Human Domination -- 2. Law and the Anthropocene's Global -- 3. Constitutionalism -- 4. Global Aspects of Constitutionalism -- 5. The Fundamentals of Environmental Constitutionalism -- 6. The Prospects of Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene -- 7. A Vision of Global Environmental Constitutionalism in the Anthropocene -- 8. Conclusion

Includes bibliographical references and index

Volhoubare ontwikkeling bly die wyds aanvaarde konseptuele hulpmiddel om die wêreldsamelewing die moeilike groei- en ontwikkelingsdoolhof te lei. Maar net soos in die res van die wêreld oorheers die politiek en neoliberale antroposentrisme die werklikheid in Suid-Afrika, en by afwesigheid van enige ander polities aanvaarbare konstruk wat nie met die heersende antroposentriese eise in stryd is nie, sal swak volhoubare ontwikkeling (in teenstelling met 'n ekosentriese vorm van sterk volhoubare ontwikkeling) waarskynlik vir die afsienbare toekoms die oorhand hê. Om die waarheid te sê, sterk volhoubare ontwikkeling het tot op hede weinig prioriteit geniet in die regs- en politieke werklikheid en dit is onwaarskynlik dat hierdie posisie in die afsienbare toekoms gaan verander. As voornoemde onvermydelikheid aanvaar word, is die sentrale vraag of volhoubare ontwikkeling nog steeds enige deurslaggewende rol kan speel in die handhawing van die oppergesag van die reg vir die omgewing in Suid-Afrika. In hierdie artikel doen ek aan die hand dat dit wel kan gebeur indien dit deur 'n grondwetlike lens beskou word. In Suid-Afrika is volhoubare ontwikkeling 'n integrale deel van die regsorde sedert die koms van demokrasie. Die land het 'n fundamentele omgewingsreg verskans in die Grondwet van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika 1996 en 'n omvattende korpus omgewingsreg aanvaar om uitvoering aan die breër beleide daarvan en die menigte grondwetlike oogmerke van die nuwe omgewingsreg te gee. Deur dié verskansing het volhoubare ontwikkeling dus in ons land 'n grondwetlike vraagstuk of aangeleentheid geword wat binne die konteks van omgewingskonstitusionalisme beskou moet word. As oorkoepelende doelstelling beoog die artikel om 'n bydrae te lewer tot die konseptuele ontwikkeling van die oppergesag van die reg in die Suid-Afrikaanse omgewingsregkonteks en die breër konteks van omgewingskonstitusionalisme, en om dan die rol van volhoubare ontwikkeling in dié verband te illustreer. Wat die sentrale navorsingsvraag betref, wil ek gevolglik ondersoek instel of die "flou" konsep van volhoubare ontwikkeling weer "bygebring" kan word deur dit grondwetlik in te klee, en of volhoubare ontwikkeling as 'n eienskap van omgewingskonstitusionalisme kan bydra tot die handhawing van die oppergesag van die reg vir die omgewing in Suid-Afrika op grond van die wyse waarop die Suid-Afrikaanse regsprekende gesag met volhoubare ontwikkeling omgegaan het.

This comprehensive Research Handbook is the first study to link law and Earth system science through the epistemic lens of the planetary boundaries framework. It critically examines the legal and governance aspects of the framework, considering not only each planetary boundary, but also a range of systemic issues, including the ability of law to keep us within the planetary boundaries' safe operating space.

A New Paradigm for Biodiversity Governance in a Transnational World / Louis J. Kotze and Thilo Marauhn -- Transboundary Environmental Governance of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene / Louis J. Kotze -- The Concept of Public Trusteeship in the Transboundary Governance of Biodiversity / Peter H. Sand -- Transfrontier Protection of the Natural Environment, Globalization and State Sovereignty / Francois Venter -- An Ecosystem Approach to the Transboundary Protection of Biodiversity / Thilo Marauhn and Ayse-Martina Bohringer -- Universal Transboundary Protection of Biodiversity and Its Impact on the Low-level Transboundary Protection of Wildlife / Ulrich Beyerlin -- European Regional Approaches to the Transboundary Conservation of Biodiversity: The Bern Convention and the EU Birds and Habitats Directives / Floor Fleurke and Arie Trouwborst -- Protected Areas Governance in a Southern African Transfrontier Context / Alexander Paterson

Achieving environmental justice in South Africa is critically important, not only because of historical reasons rooted in the country's apartheid past, but also to ensure that everyone in the country, especially marginalized and vulnerable sectors of society, are properly protected from disproportional environmental impacts. Another aim of environmental justice in South Africa is to ensure that everyone equally shares in the benefits of the country's resources. In this article, we interrogate ways through which to achieve environmental justice in South Africa through the use of civil-based instruments (CBIs) of environmental governance. The central hypothesis is that CBIs are particularly well-suited to contribute to the achievement of environmental justice since they are essentially instruments which empower civil society to become central stakeholders in environmental governance by fostering active participation in the decisions that may impact on the environment and people's health and well-being. Through these instruments all of society, particularly disenfranchised people suffering most from environmental injustice, are afforded a platform to pursue their environment-related interests that may be affected by the decisions taken by government and private actors such as polluting companies. For the purpose of the discussion we focus specifically on public participation, access to information and access to justice, all of which are generally accepted as CBIs, including in international law.

South Africa has come a long way since the constitutional revolution that swept the country in the early 1990s. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 introduced and continues to drive far-reaching changes to the political, social and juridical landscape and it aims to create a more just and equal society for all; one where respect for human rights is paramount. On 16 August 2012 the country was rocked to its core when the South African Police Service killed 34 striking miners at Lonmin Plc's platinum mine at Marikana in the country's North-West Province in what appeared to be a brutal suppression of one of the most significant labour unrests in the country's history. Evoking images of apartheid-era police brutality, the "Marikana massacre" has unearthed some of the many challenges the country is struggling with on its long road to creating a just society for all. The predominant focus of political and juridical commentary on and scholarly critique of the incident has to date focused on labour and social justice issues. In this article we focus on the often ignored, albeit equally critical, deleterious socio-economic and related environmental impacts of mining in South Africa by exploring the intimate link between slow violence and the broader environmental justice movement within the South African context through the lens of the Marikana massacre. In pursuit of this objective, the article commences with a brief overview of the actors involved in the Marikana massacre. The following part seeks to understand environmental justice and slow violence in relation to the massacre. We then demonstrate how the South African mining industry, backed as it was by government, has been highly exploitative of workers and natural resources, and how successive post-apartheid governments have been and continue to be complicit in environmental injustice and slow violence against marginalised black people in South Africa. In view of the consequences of this historical legacy, in the final part of the article, we provide some critical observations within the framework of environmental justice and slow violence.