Taking a de-binarised envirosocial approach to reconciling the environment vs economy debate: lessons from climate change litigation for planning in NSW, Australia

Bartel, Robyn; McFarland, Paul; Hearfield, Colin

doi:10.3828/tpr.2014.6

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“…Another significant feature of its approach is that it undermines the paradigm of anthropocentrism at the heart of modern Anglo‐European law. Geography is one among many disciplines bringing concerted critique upon human–nature dualities (see for example Bartel et al ., forthcoming). Legal geography is one way for these initiatives to give effect to their purpose: supporting, through reformed interventions, an environment beyond economic exploitation, utilitarian benefit and humanist hubris.…”

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“…This is particularly so in the context of Australia's often‐fraught environmental history (see for example Flannery, ; Low, ; Lindenmayer, ; Weir, ). Working to see the interconnections between human, space and policy offers a way forward that can transcend debates that have become entrenched conflicts of interest (see for example Bartel, ; Bartel et al ., forthcoming).…”

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“…For example, carbon markets such as those promoted by UN REDD+ regimes entail risks and challenges for governance that appear to be overlooked by current approaches (Martin, ). These regimes will not only have differential effects locally but also arguably maintain processes of dispossession and commodification that inherently perpetuate exploitation rather than environmental protection and equity, given the fundamental incomparability of natural and economic capital (see for example Webber, ; Wainwright et al ., ; Harvey, ; Williams and McNeill, ; Amin, ; Bridge, ; Knox‐Hayes, ; Wallerstein, ; Bartel et al ., forthcoming). It is also true that environmental and carbon markets and their associated regulatory architectures may offer creative and emancipatory opportunities for peoples and places (see for example Gerrard, ).…”

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Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective

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Law is a powerful influence on people and place. Law both creates and is created by the relationship between people and place, although it rarely acknowledges this. Law frequently operates as if space does not matter. Law and legal processes, therefore, deserve greater attention from geographers. Legal geography is an emerging field of inquiry that facilitates much-needed attention to the interrelationships among the environment, people and social institutions, including formal laws but also informal rules, norms and lore. Legal geographers seek to make the invisible visible: to bring the law into the frame of geography, and space and place into focus for the law. Both critical and applied in approach, legal geography offers descriptive, analytical and normative insight into economics, justice, property, power, geopolitics, governance and scale. As such it can enrich most areas of geographic inquiry as well as contribute to current policy debates about the regulation of space and place. Legal geography is a way for enlarged appreciations of relationality, materiality, multiscalarity and agency to be used to interrogate and reform the law. This introduction to a special 'themed paper' section of Geographical Research provides a window on legal geography scholarship, including its history, contribution and ambition. The papers in the collection explore issues grounded in the legal geographies paradigm, variously analysing matters empirically detailed while engaging in broader, theoretical debates and using both Australian and international case studies.

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Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective

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“…Norton and Reid, 2013;Trigger et al, 2010). This is akin to the 'envirosocial approach' advanced by Bartel et al (2014) in which all interests (economic, social, environmental) are ultimately inter-connected. Saltzman et al (2011) have discussed how the dominant appreciation of agriculture in Sweden is that it is part of nature rather than, as is the dominant understanding in Australia, in opposition to nature.…”

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Defining environmental crime: The perspective of farmers

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Bartel

2015

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…The value of research must not be so narrowly defined and, for example, the “public interest” should be understood in its broadest sense, to include all publics, as well as the environment (Bartel et al . ), an aspect particularly pertinent to geography as a discipline.…”

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Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

Bartel

2019

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Academic freedom is under threat internationally. Several high profile incidents suggest that academic freedom is a principle neither well understood nor appreciated by key decision makers and stakeholders whom one might expect to champion it, be they in government or within the academy itself. Among those incidents are the arbitrary exercise of ministerial discretion to override the Australian Research Council expert peer review recommendations for allocation of funding, recent attacks on the credibility of academic publishing internationally, and the atrocious treatment of scholars by authoritarian regimes across the globe. In light of such developments, the membership of the Institute of Australian Geographers recently adopted a resolution that, inter alia, called on the Council of the Institute of Australian Geographers ‘not to be silent on the issue of attacks on critical scholarship, academic freedom and the integrity of academic procedures in higher education, research and publishing’. Given the complexity of the issues, this paper invites further discussion and debate on how Australian geography and geographers might better appreciate and advance academic freedom including via the promotion of scholarship that gives full effect to the principle.

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Taking a de-binarised envirosocial approach to reconciling the environment vs economy debate: lessons from climate change litigation for planning in NSW, Australia

Cited by 17 publications

References 109 publications

Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective

Legal Geography: An Australian Perspective

Defining environmental crime: The perspective of farmers

Academic freedom and an invitation to promote its advancement

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