Global resources and the environment are under great pressure. This is giving rise to an environmental rights revolution, which puts the environmental law in the centre of current rights debates. This important collection tracks this and identifies 3 emerging resulting trends. Firstly, there is an increase in the constitutionalising of rights of nature; ie enshrining positive environmental rights. Secondly, participatory rights are on the rise, broadening the range of actors that might rely on environmental law. And finally, marketable rights to promote efficient use of natural resources are...

Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has emerged, each with their own imageries, vocabularies, expert-knowledge, and rules to translate our hopes and fears for the future into action in the present. At issue in the development of these regimes are not just competing predictions of the future based on what we know about what has happened in the past and what we know is...