Law and the Kinetic Environment: Regulating Dynamic Landscapes

The legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic, are explored in this book. It challenges the normative conceptualizations of stability of place, property ownership, and legal regulation and offers new jurisprudential insights into what law is and how it operates in response to the kineticism inherent in all landscapes.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 106 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic, are explored in this book. The traditional view in legal geography holds that the spatial relationship between law and landscape is static, with environments often considered fixed and inert, as places that do not change. Consequently, academic attention is often focused on what happens in these places rather than the places themselves. In contrast, Law and the Kinetic Environment considers how many landscapes are in flux and, as a result, may be seen as dynamic. Natural phenomena, such as oozing lava, moving glaciers, or bubbling geothermal pools, challenge and test the normative conceptualizations of stability of place, property ownership, and legal regulation. As a result, these dynamic landscapes enliven and transform law, offering new jurisprudential insights into what law is and how it operates in response to the kineticism that, this book argues, is inherent in all landscapes. This original engagement with legal geography will appeal to those with general interests in this area, as well as specific concerns with questions of law and place, property, and the environment.

The legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic, are explored in this book. The traditional view in legal geography holds that the spatial relationship between law and landscape is static, with environments often considered fixed and inert, as places that do not change. Consequently, academic attention is often focused on what happens in these places rather than the places themselves. In contrast, Law and the Kinetic Environment considers how many landscapes are in flux and, as a result, may be seen as dynamic. Natural phenomena, such as oozing lava, moving glaciers, or bubbling geothermal pools, challenge and test the normative conceptualizations of stability of place, property ownership, and legal regulation. As a result, these dynamic landscapes enliven and transform law, offering new jurisprudential insights into what law is and how it operates in response to the kineticism that, this book argues, is inherent in all landscapes. This original engagement with legal geography will appeal to those with general interests in this area, as well as specific concerns with questions of law and place, property, and the environment.

Weight: 220g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367698126