The Law of Complex Earth and Outer Space Systems
The Cosmolegal Proposal
Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032266879 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032266879 (ISBN)
This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex Earth system-outer space interactions in the Anthropocene era.
This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.
Drawing on complex systems science, posthuman approaches, and plural ontologies, the author proposes a reimagining of law and governance for the cosmic age. Through the “cosmolegal” perspective, this study embraces the inherent uncertainties and complexities of Earth-space interactions. From Arctic methane craters to orbital debris, the book weaves together scientific insights, landscape architecture, legal theory, and doctrine to address pressing environmental challenges that span Earth and beyond.
While legal scholarship has increasingly engaged with Earth System Science, it typically treats outer space as distinct from Earth’s environment. However, Earth’s existence and complex systems are fundamentally intertwined with and emerge from outer space. This book argues that a legal framework for Earth’s systems needs to include outer space.
At its core, the book advocates for a “complexification” of law, calling for greater epistemic humility in legal thought and practice. Thoughtful and provocative, this work invites readers to reconsider fundamental assumptions about law, nature, and agency beyond the human in an era of planetary change. The cosmolegal approach aims to shift legal imagination and understanding, positioning human law as just one of many actors within the cosmos.
This original work will appeal to scholars of legal theory and environmental law, as well as those interested in posthumanism, ecology, and materialism.
This book offers a paradigm-shifting exploration of lawmaking for the complex interactions between Earth systems and outer space.
Drawing on complex systems science, posthuman approaches, and plural ontologies, the author proposes a reimagining of law and governance for the cosmic age. Through the “cosmolegal” perspective, this study embraces the inherent uncertainties and complexities of Earth-space interactions. From Arctic methane craters to orbital debris, the book weaves together scientific insights, landscape architecture, legal theory, and doctrine to address pressing environmental challenges that span Earth and beyond.
While legal scholarship has increasingly engaged with Earth System Science, it typically treats outer space as distinct from Earth’s environment. However, Earth’s existence and complex systems are fundamentally intertwined with and emerge from outer space. This book argues that a legal framework for Earth’s systems needs to include outer space.
At its core, the book advocates for a “complexification” of law, calling for greater epistemic humility in legal thought and practice. Thoughtful and provocative, this work invites readers to reconsider fundamental assumptions about law, nature, and agency beyond the human in an era of planetary change. The cosmolegal approach aims to shift legal imagination and understanding, positioning human law as just one of many actors within the cosmos.
This original work will appeal to scholars of legal theory and environmental law, as well as those interested in posthumanism, ecology, and materialism.
Elena Cirkovic is a researcher in the Department of Law at Aarhus University, Denmark.
1. Introducing complex Earth-outer space challenges 2. Critical more-than-planetary boundaries: Cryosphere, atmosphere, and outer space 3. Complex systems and Earth-outer space anthropogenic activities 4. Beyond the human 5. Imagining precautionary principle in Earth-outer space complex systems 6. Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.02.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Space, Materiality and the Normative |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 480 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781032266879 / 9781032266879 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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