Time and Environmental Law: Telling Nature's Time

by Benjamin Richardson

Disciplined by industrial clock time, modern life distances people from nature's biorhythms such as its ecological, evolutionary, and climatic processes. The law is complicit in numerous ways. It compresses time through 'fast-track' legislation and accelerated resource exploitation. It suffers from temporal inertia, such as 'grandfathering' existing activities that limits the law's responsiveness to changing circumstances. Insouciance about past ecological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107191246
• ISBN13: 9781107191242
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"