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Environmental law and the unsustainability of sustainable development : a tale of disenchantment and of hope
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Kotze, Louis J. and Adelman, Sam (2023) Environmental law and the unsustainability of sustainable development : a tale of disenchantment and of hope. Law and Critique, 34 . pp. 227-248. doi:10.1007/s10978-022-09323-4 ISSN 0957-8536.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10978-022-09323-4
Abstract
In this article we argue that sustainable development is not a socio-ecologically friendly principle. The principle, which is deeply embedded in environmental law, policymaking and governance, drives environmentally destructive neoliberal economic growth that exploits and degrades the vulnerable living order. Despite seemingly well-meaning intentions behind the emergence of sustainable development, it almost invariably facilitates exploitative economic development activities that exacerbate systemic inequalities and injustices without noticeably protecting all life forms in the Anthropocene. We conclude the article by examining an attempt to construct alternatives to sustainable development through the indigenous onto-epistemology of buen vivir. While no panacea, buen vivir is a worldview that offers the potential to critically rethink how environmental law could re-orientate away from its ‘centered’, gendered and anthropocentric, neoliberal sustainable development ontology, to a radically different ontology that embraces ecologically sustainable ways of seeing, being, knowing and caring.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor K Law [Moys] > KC International Law K Law [Moys] > KN Common Law, Private Law |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Economic development, Sustainable development , Environmentalism , Environmental law, International, Environmental law , Neoliberalism | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Law and Critique | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0957-8536 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | July 2023 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 227-248 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10978-022-09323-4 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
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| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 September 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 September 2022 |
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