Narratives of Environmentalism in National Laws

Autor: Julia Jester, Shumaila Fatima, Alphonse Opoku, Nidhi Bangalore, Farah Hennawi, Caroline Nabbie, Sneha Saravanan, Andreas Duit, Andrew Hargrove, Jamie M. Sommer
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Environment & Development. 32:3-33
ISSN: 1552-5465
1070-4965
DOI: 10.1177/10704965221132271
Popis: For several decades, national environmental framework laws have come into existence to define its citizens’ environmental rights and duties, as well as express how the government will manage and protect the environment. However, previous research has not considered how a nation’s highest form of law promising environmental protection and management conveys its role or supports relevant parties. To fill this gap, we do a narrative analysis to see what themes emerged in 44 national environmental framework laws across the world. The main themes are (1) Rights and responsibilities of citizens and corporations, (2) Rights of the natural environment, (3) Environmental knowledge, (4) Governing the natural environment, and (5) External influences. Overall, we argue that the narratives we observed in the national environmental framework laws helps shape and reify the existing human domination of the natural environment for our own benefit and survival under the guise of protection.
Databáze: OpenAIRE