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Climate change law: encounters with aesthetics and art
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 LawVolume
8Issue
3-4Pagination
279-319ISSN
1878-6553Department/School
Faculty of LawPublisher
Brill - NijhoffPlace of publication
NetherlandsRights statement
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018Repository Status
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