Property, Land and Environment Research Group

Description

Members of the Property, Land and Environment Research Group develop existing Law research interests, with a special emphasis on natural resource conservation.

The group focuses on areas such as:

• natural resource conservation, including climate change, biodiversity conservation, sustainable food and farming (including trade law aspects), species conservation and renewable energy.
• development of principles of liability for environmental harms.
• Brexit implications for environmental governance.
• theoretical themes of Wild Law, human/nature connections and Rights of Nature; ethics of care and connection to place in the contexts of preserving green space and in renewable energy decision-making;
• conceptions of property and commodification in environmental contexts such as emissions trading, forestry and conservation covenants. Further approaches include environmental human rights and environmental constitutionalism, as well as legal pluralism, anthropology of law and legal history.

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University of Sussex
Brighton