University:
University College London
Course:
LAWS0025 | Environmental Law
Academic year:

2024
Views:

106

Pages:

2
Author:

Nam B.

The Duty to Protect the Environment Presented by: Prof. Fracchia Date: 6 April 2023 Structure - - Three provocations • No right • No protection of environment • No environment The problem of the legal definition and "legal qualification" of the environment Ethic And Environment - The change • Leopold (land ethic, ecocentrism; founded deep ecology; 1949), ecology as absolute value • Singer (animal liberation): animal and pain • Stone: rights to trees? (should trees have standing? 1974); Т. Regan: The Case of Animal Rights (1983) • Brown Weiss; future generation - Hermeneutics, Interpretation - Experience as Interpretation - Truth and Ethics - The Ethics of the Respect of the "other" - The legal definition Environment And Duty - Principles: 'polluter pays', reduction of damage at the source, precaution, prevention - Development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet theirs The Ultimate Purpose Of Environmental Regulations - The protection of mankind's possibility of survival Object Of The New Sector Of Law That I Propose To Study - Environmental crises, - Economic- financial crises, - Health issues, - Immigration, - The issue of public finances, - Corruption, - Food crises, - Population growth (we have just reached the symbolic threshold of eight billion inhabitants of our planet), - "digital" crises, - Energy crises; Other Questions To Be Solved (Future Step Of The Research): - How to define the area (also related to tourism problems) of truly strategic choices to which the new sector of law can be applied? - Problems of modernity? - What operational consequences can be derived from general legal principles of this new sector of law? The "Anguish" Brings Out The Essential Need To - Identify the real intergenerational problems - Set principles and rules that embody the "authentic" and "transparent" need to "take care" of those who are weak - But: ... Otherwise let us live in peace