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The 'Ecosystem Approach' in International Environmental Law - Genealogy and Biopolitics (Paperback)
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The 'Ecosystem Approach' in International Environmental Law - Genealogy and Biopolitics (Paperback)
Series: Law, Justice and Ecology
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The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and
governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity
management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international
environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy
approach and in some cases legally binding obligations for States
to implement what has been called a 'new paradigm' of environmental
management. In this last respect, the ecosystem approach is also
often considered to offer an opportunity to move beyond the
outdated anthropocentric framework underpinning much of
international environmental law, thus helping re-think law in the
Anthropocene. Against this background, this book addresses the
question of whether the ecosystem approach represents a paradigm
shift in international environmental law and governance, or whether
it is in conceptual and operative continuity with legal modernity.
This central question is explored through a combined genealogical
and biopolitical framework, which reveals how the ecosystem
approach is the result of multiple contingencies and contestations,
and of the interplay of divergent and sometimes irreconcilable
ideological projects. The ecosystem approach, this books shows,
does not have a univocal identity, and must be understood as both
signalling the potential for a decisive shift in the philosophical
orientation of law and the operationalisation of a biopolitical
framework of control that is in continuity with, and even
intensifies, the eco-destructive tendencies of legal modernity. It
is, however, in revealing this disjunction that the book opens up
the possibility of moving beyond the already tired assessment of
environmental law through the binary of anthropocentrism and
ecocentrism.
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