Law and the Kinetic Environment

This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static but dynamic. Within the field of legal geography the spatial relationship of law to landscape is usually considered to be static. Environments are often considered fixed and consequently inert as places that literally donât go anywhere. Typically then it is what happens in these places rather than the place itself that commands academic attention. In contrast to this static viewpoint Law and the Kinetic Environment considers how many landscapes are in flux and as a result may be seen as dynamic. Natural phenomena such as oozing lava moving glaciers or bubbling geothermal pools challenge and test the normative conceptualizations of stability of place property ownership and legal regulation. Consequently such dynamic landscapes enliven and transform law offering new jurisprudential insights into what law is and how it operates in response to the kineticism that this book argues is to some degree inherent in all landscapes. This original engagement with legal geography will appeal to those with general interests in this area as well as specific concerns with questions of law and place property and the environment. . Language: English