A new monograph: "Earth System Law: Standing on the Precipice of the Anthropocene" (Routledge) with participation of our Faculty scholars

Assoc. Prof. Maciej Nyka from the Department of Public Economic Law and Environmental Protection Law wrote a chapter for this monograph entitled "The framework of the justice of the earth system in the legal context of the earth system". The aim was to present the proposal for a reform of the legal system of environmental management on a global scale in order to adopt this system to the challenges of the Anthropocene - the first geological epoch in history in which the domination and activities of a single species lead to such rapid (and negative a well) changes in the natural environment. 

The basic thesis of the monograph is the recognition of the Earth as a comprehensive socio-ecological system and the main postulate is the change of the international environmental law so that it begins to reflect the complexity of the Earth’s adaptive systems to a bigger extent. International law in its traditional form and scope became incapable of responding to the needs of the anthropocene. The essence of the Earth System Law as a reform of environmental law is the ability to better fulfillment of the basic functions of the law, which is to provide tools for solving problems emerging in the social sphere in the context of the limited natural resources as well as the limitations resulting from the specificity of the Earth’s ecosystem.