Neubauer et al. versus Germany: Planetary Climate Litigation for the Anthropocene?

LJ Kotzé - German Law Journal, 2021 - cambridge.org
The recent decision by the German Constitutional Court in Neubauer et al. versus Germany
has been attracting considerable attention around the globe. The Court ordered the German …

[HTML][HTML] Earth system law: Exploring new frontiers in legal science

LJ Kotzé, RE Kim, C Blanchard, JC Gellers… - Earth System …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Anthropocene requires of us to rethink global governance challenges and effective
responses with a more holistic understanding of the earth system as a single intertwined …

Legal imaginaries and the Anthropocene:'of'and 'for'

A Grear - Law and Critique, 2020 - Springer
This reflection contrasts the dominant imaginary underlying 'law of the Anthropocene'with an
imaginary reaching towards 'law/s for the Anthropocene'. It does so primarily by contrasting …

Earth system law for the Anthropocene: Rethinking environmental law alongside the Earth system metaphor

LJ Kotzé - Transnational Environmental Law in the Anthropocene, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Despite its noble intentions and some victories, environmental law has been and continues
to be complicit in driving the processes and paradigms that give rise to the Anthropocene …

Decolonizing food systems: Food sovereignty, indigenous revitalization, and agroecology as counter-hegemonic movements

L Figueroa-Helland, C Thomas, AP Aguilera - Perspectives on Global …, 2018 - brill.com
We employ an intersection of critical approaches to examine the global food system crisis
and its alternatives. We examine counterhegemonic movements and organizations …

What goes around comes around: From the coloniality of power to the crisis of civilization

LE Figueroa Helland, T Lindgren - Journal of World-Systems …, 2016 - papers.ssrn.com
This article combines world-systems, decolonial, eco-feminist and post-human ecological
approaches to deconstruct the planetary crisis of the hegemonic civilization. Underpinned by …

Environmental justice and epistemic violence

S Vermeylen - Local Environment, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Studying environmental justice as a global topic is not a new phenomenon and numerous
studies have reviewed environmental justice in the Global South (Zerner 2000; Peluso and …

Ecocide, genocide and the disregard of alternative life-systems

T Lindgren - The International Journal of Human Rights, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Ecocide is a structurally reoccurring phenomenon contributing to a serious disequilibrium in
the Earth-system that buttress all planetary life. Ecocide is also a possible method of …

The Anthropocene, earth system vulnerability and socio-ecological injustice in an age of human rights

LJ Kotzé - Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 2019 - elgaronline.com
Despite important victories, human rights have been unable to respond effectively to the
many deeply intertwined socio-ecological injustices in the Anthropocene. In particular …

[HTML][HTML] Reimagining international environmental law for the Anthropocene: An earth system law perspective

L Du Toit, LJ Kotzé - Earth System Governance, 2022 - Elsevier
Concerns have been raised regarding the ability of international environmental law to
respond to potentially irreversible earth system transformations in the Anthropocene. We …