Overview
- Adopts a transdisciplinary approach to multifunctional agriculture
- Calls for the integration of the agro ecological paradigm in legal research and regulation
- Highlights the relations between Agricultural Law and Environmental Law at the national, international and EU level
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This book represents a first attempt to investigate the relations between Law and Agroecology.
There is a need to adopt a transdisciplinary approach to multifunctional agriculture in order to integrate the agroecological paradigm in legal regulation. This does not require a super-law that hierarchically purports to incorporate and supplant the existing legal fields; rather, it calls for the creation of a trans-law that progressively works to coordinate interlegalities between different legal fields, respecting their autonomy but emphasizing their common historical roots in rus in the process.
Rus, the rural phenomenon as a whole, reflects the plurality and interdependence of different complex systems based jointly on the land as a central point of reference. “Rural” is more than “agricultural”: if agriculture is understood traditionally as an activity aimed at exploiting the land for the production of material goods for use, consumption and private exchange, rurality marks the reintegration of agriculture into a broader sphere, one that is not only economic, but also social and cultural; not only material, but also ideal, relational, historical, and symbolic; and not only private, but also public.
In approaching rus, the natural and social sciences first became specialized, multiplied, and compartmentalized in a plurality of first-order disciplines; later, they began a process of integration into Agroecology as a second-order, multi-perspective and shared research platform. Today, Agroecology is a transdiscipline that integrates other fields of knowledge into the concept of agroecosystems viewed as socio-ecological systems.
However, the law seems to still be stuck in the first stage. Following a reductionist approach, law has deconstructed and shattered the universe of rus into countless, disjointed legal elementary particles, multiplying the planes of analysis and, in particular, keeping Agricultural Law and EnvironmentalLaw two separate fields.
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Law and Agroecology: Crossing the Boundaries Between Natural, Social and Legal Sciences
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Front Matter
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Multidimensional Relations Between Land, Agriculture and the Environment
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Law and Agroecology
Book Subtitle: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue
Editors: Massimo Monteduro, Pierangelo Buongiorno, Saverio Di Benedetto, Alessandro Isoni
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46617-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-46616-2Published: 19 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52635-4Published: 29 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-46617-9Published: 06 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 494
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, International Environmental Law, European Law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice