ABSTRACT
This book is the first legal geography book to explicitly engage in method. It complements this by also bringing together different perspectives on the emerging school of legal geography. It explores human–environment interactions and showcases distinct environmental legal geography scholarship.
Legal Geography: Perspectives and Methods is an innovative book concerned with a new relational and material way of examining our legal-spatial world. With chapters examining natural resource management, Indigenous knowledge and political ecology scholarship, the text introduces legal geography’s modes of analysis and critique. The book explores topics such as Indigenous environmental rights, the impacts of extractive industries, mediation of climate change, food, animal and plant patents, fossil fuels, mining and coastal environments based on empirical, jurisdictional and methodological insights from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific to demonstrate how space and place are invoked in legal processes and contestations, and the methods that may be employed to explore these processes and contestations.
This book examines the role of legal geographies in the 21st century beyond the simple “law in action”, and it will thus appeal to students of socio-legal studies, human geography, environmental studies, environmental policy, as well as politics and international relations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|16 pages
Introduction
part 2|91 pages
Investigating the legal geographies of Indigenous peoples and local communities and their environments
chapter 3|21 pages
Asserting land rights through technology and democratic expression
chapter 5|17 pages
Patent landscaping for Vanuatu
chapter 6|17 pages
Consulting the consultators
part 3|88 pages
Investigating the legal geographies of regulation
chapter 7|17 pages
Inside-outside
chapter 8|19 pages
Legal geography – place, time, law and method
chapter 11|14 pages
Ask an “expert”
part 4|82 pages
Investigating the legal geographies of extractive industries
chapter 12|20 pages
Sydney’s drinking water catchment
chapter 13|19 pages
Lawyers in legal geography
chapter 14|18 pages
Energising the law
part 5|20 pages
In memoriam
chapter 16|18 pages
Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users
part 6|6 pages
Conclusion