ABSTRACT
In this concluding chapter, the editors identify and discuss the major issues that have emerged from this collection and explore how these nascent issues provide a pathway for future legal geography scholarship.
We draw attention to the uniqueness of Australian and Asian-Pacific legal geography scholarship, namely an attentiveness to human–environment relations, evidenced by the florescence of a distinct environmental legal geography scholarship. This edited collection explores legal geography perspectives through this environmental frame, with specific attention to three substantive themes, organised as sections of this book: investigating the legal geographies of Indigenous and local peoples and their environments; investigating the legal geographies of regulation; and investigating the legal geographies of extractive industries. Throughout each, specific attention is paid to how we, as legal geographers, engage with specific methods and with cornerstone methodological concerns in our research including positionality, reflexivity and materiality.
