Locality and Identity Environmental Issues in Law and Society

First published in 1999, this volume is concerned with how issues of identity and locality – globalization and ethics, valuing the environment, environmental justice and the use of traditional and new legal forms – cross the disciplines of law, ethics, geography, political science and social theory. Necessarily diverse, the collection both explores and confronts the limitations of law that prevent recognition of the relationship between humans and nature.

Part 1. Moral and Market Boundaries. 1. Using Environmental Ehics to Create Ecological Law. David Wilkinson. 2. Challenging the Ethos of the European Union: A Green Perspective on European Union Policies and Programmes for Rural Development and the Environment. David Wood. Part 2. Nature and Identity. 3. Capturing Values for Nature: Ecological, Economic and Cultural Perspectives. Carolyn Harrison, Jacquelin Burgess and Judy Clark. 4. Private Country? Hunting, Land and Judicial Interventions. Davina Cooper. 5. Hedgerows, Laws and Cultural Landscape. Jane Holder. Part 3. Environmental Justice. 6. The Grassroots at Risk: Local Perceptions and Environmental Injustice. Angela C. Halfacre and Albert R. Matheny. 7. Environmental Justice: The American Experience and its Possible Application to the United Kingdom. Antonia Layard. Part 4. Legal Mechanisms and Social Practices. 8. Save as You Spend: Consumer Protection of the Environment and Local Social Cohesion. Fran?oise Jarvis. 9. Common Property and Private Trusts. Paul Kohler.