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Climate change law: encounters with aesthetics and art

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posted on 2023-05-19, 22:15 authored by Benjamin RichardsonBenjamin Richardson
Climate change has multifaceted aesthetic dimensions of legal significance. Global warming alters the aesthetic properties of nature, and further aesthetic changes are precipitated by climate mitigation and adaptation responses of impacted societies. The social and political struggles to influence climate change law are also influenced by aesthetics, as environmental activists and artists collaborate to influence public opinion, while conversely the business sector through its marketing and other aesthetic communications tries to persuade consumers of its climate-friendly practices to forestall serious action on global warming. This article distils and analyses these patterns in forging a novel account of the role of aesthetics in climate change law and policy, and it makes conclusions on how this field of law should consider aesthetic values through ‘curatorial’ guidance.

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Publication title

Climate Law

Volume

8

Issue

3-4

Pagination

279-319

ISSN

1878-6553

Department/School

Faculty of Law

Publisher

Brill - Nijhoff

Place of publication

Netherlands

Rights statement

© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018

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  • Restricted

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Understanding climate change not elsewhere classified

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