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Environmental Precedent: Foregrounding the Environmental Consequences of Law in Sociology
Sociological Forum ( IF 1.867 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-31 , DOI: 10.1111/socf.12727
Daniel Shtob 1 , Jordan Fox Besek 2
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The central premise of environmental sociology is that social and environmental processes influence one another in fundamental ways. Here we build upon that insight and develop the concept of “environmental precedent” to better incorporate the full range of environmentally consequential law - even law that is not “environmental” per se - in sociological analysis. Environmental precedent refers to the environmental consequences of legal processes, consequences that become the new, enduring, dynamic material reality for future legal processes. Unlike legal precedent, which may be amended to suit immediate needs through judicial or legislative action, environmental precedent can have interpretive and material consequences that may be impossible for any social process to predict, amend, or reverse. To demonstrate the concept’s usefulness, we illustrate the varied, dialectical environmental and legal relationships that exist in three case studies; the Flint water crisis, the federal passage of a suite of environmental laws in the early 1970s, and how some preconditions to the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina came to pass in New Orleans. In addition to foregrounding the benefits to sociology of a sharper understanding of environmental legal theory and practice, our aim is to encourage collaboration between social scientists, environmental lawyers, and legal scholars.

中文翻译:

环境先例:突出社会学中法律的环境后果

环境社会学的核心前提是社会和环境过程以基本方式相互影响。在这里,我们建立在这种洞察力的基础上并发展“环境先例”的概念,以在社会学分析中更好地将所有环境后果法——甚至不是“环境”本身的法律——纳入其中。环境先例是指法律程序的环境后果,这些后果成为未来法律程序的新的、持久的、动态的物质现实。与可以通过司法或立法行动修改以适应即时需要的法律先例不同,环境先例可能具有任何社会过程都无法预测、修正或逆转的解释性和实质性后果。为了证明这个概念的有用性,我们说明了三个案例研究中存在的各种辩证的环境和法律关系;弗林特水危机、1970 年代初期联邦通过了一套环境法,以及卡特里娜飓风灾难性影响的一些先决条件是如何在新奥尔良通过的。除了突出对环境法律理论和实践的更深入理解对社会学的好处之外,我们的目标是鼓励社会科学家、环境律师和法律学者之间的合作。
更新日期:2021-05-31
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