Natural Perception
Natural Perception
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Images of nature abound in the practice of international environmental law but their significance in law is unclear. Drawing on visual jurisprudence, and interpretative methods for visual art, this book analyses photographs for their representations of nature's aesthetic value in treaty processes that concern world heritage, whales and biodiversity. It argues that visual images should be embraced in the prosaic practice of international law, particularly for treaties that demand judgements of nature's aesthetic value. This environmental value is in practice conflated with natural beauty, ethical and cultural values, and displaced by economic and scientific values. Interpretations of visual images can serve instead to critique and conceive sensory, imaginative and emotional appreciations of nature from different cultural perspectives as proposed by philosophers of environmental aesthetics. Addressing questions of value and the visual, this landmark book shows how images can be engaged by nations to better protect the environment under international law.
- Develops concepts and methods for analysing the meaning of visual images, from a critical perspective, for international law
- Critiques and proposes alternative understandings of the environment's aesthetic value in international environmental law
- Shows how theories developed for different disciplines can be combined for application
Reviews & endorsements
'Palmer's book is important, because it offers critical insight into the impossible task of squaring the aesthetic circle. [The book] convincingly shows that current practice and existing doctrine fail to do justice to one of the legal criteria included in the Biodiversity and World Heritage Conventions.' W.G. Werner, American Journal of International Law
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August 2023Adobe eBook Reader
9781009350112
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- 1. In the frame: an introduction
- 2. The environment's 'Aesthetic' value
- 3. Legal interpretation of Aesthetic value
- 4. Images and aesthetics for international environmental law
- 5. Valuing Aesthetics of world natural heritage
- 6. The art of image in the whaling in the Antarctic case
- 7. Fragmented Aesthetics of biodiversity
- 8. Beyond the frame: a conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
