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8 J. Hum. Rts. & Env't. 177 (2017)
Crisis, Injustice and Response

handle is hein.journals/jhre8 and id is 176 raw text is: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 8 No. 2, September 2017, pp. 177-180 Editorial Crisis, injustice and response This edition of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment focuses on some of the multiple crises and forms of injustice - most especially the climate crisis - characterizing the present age: The theme of crisis and response is legible in each contribution to this edition - as is a concern with various sources and forms of injustice. The first contribution to this edition implicates the deeper epistemological crisis of modernity lying beneath the conceptual poverty of ecosystem approaches in environ- mental law and offers in response a biopolitical analysis laying this poverty bare and indicating future research directions for a critical environmental law (Vito De Lucia). The second contribution addresses the moral hazard presented by the relatively unquestioned priority given to unproven technical fixes for the climate crisis - and offers a response in the form of a critique that suggests the need for a justice-sensitive reorientation of approach (Henry Shue). The third contribution implicates various interwoven crises lying at the heart of the climate crisis and exposes the Eurocentric commitments driving them. In response, new foundations for climate justice are sug- gested by drawing upon the Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change (Kirsten Davies et al.). The fourth contribution to this edition addresses energy governance - an issue intimately linked with climate injustice and the climate crisis - offering in response a comparative analysis of human rights and sustainable develop- ment law and their potential to provide a just and future-proofed energy governance system (Vincent Bellinkx and Wouter Vandenhole). The fifth and final contribution addresses a very particular climate justice lacuna in discussions of the Paris Agree- ment and of climate justice and human rights generally: the failure to address the 'continual' extraction of fossil fuels - to which a response is offered in the form of three analytical concepts aiming to bring rights and justice considerations into the centre-frame of climate change discussions (Julia Dehm). Crisis, injustice and response emerge therefore, as a theme, sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit, yet always insistently present in the contexts (both background and foreground) of the discussions offered in this edition. In 'Beyond Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism: A Biopolitical Reading of Environmental Law', De Lucia examines the binary, linear assumptions lying behind the general enthusiasm for the 'rise of ecosystem regimes' in environmental law. Such regimes are increasingly viewed as pivotal responses to the multiple crises characterizing 'the Anthropocene'. Yet while many scholars and policy makers see ecosystem regimes as suitable for addressing the shortcomings of envir- onmental law, De Lucia sets out to problematize them. He does so by challenging both the linearity of the 'progress narrative' accompanying the development of such regimes and the underlying binary formulation of anthropocentrism v ecocentrism used to frame them. Drawing on what he calls 'an analytics of biopolitics', De Lucia argues that the familiar binary formulation is too simplistic to capture the 0 2017 The Author Journal compilation 0 2017 Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd The Lypiatts, 15 Lansdown Road, Cheltenham, Glos GL50 2JA, UK and The William Pratt House, 9 Dewey Court, Northampton MA 01060-3815, USA

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