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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, edited by Michelle Lim Springer, 2019, 245 pp, €124.79 hb, €96.29 ebk ISBN 9789811390647 hb, 9789811390654 ebk

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Charting Environmental Law Futures in the Anthropocene, edited by Michelle Lim Springer, 2019, 245 pp, €124.79 hb, €96.29 ebk ISBN 9789811390647 hb, 9789811390654 ebk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2020

Phillipa McCormack*
Affiliation:
School of Law, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Tasmania (Australia)

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3 International Commission on Stratigraphy, ‘Working Group on the “Anthropocene”’, 21 May 2019, available at: http://quaternary.stratigraphy.org/working-groups/anthropocene.

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6 Regional and domestic laws are addressed in chapters on Latin America (Ch. 2); China (Ch. 3); Japan (Ch. 6); India (Chs 14 and 17); and South Africa (Ch. 18).

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