Contagious Environmental Lawmaking

It is rare to find an environmental law development or 'innovation' announced or celebrated without some discussion of its transferability. Discourses of diffusion are becoming increasingly central to the way that we develop, communicate and frame environmental law ideas. And yet, this sig...

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Main Author: Affolder, N. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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520 3 |a It is rare to find an environmental law development or 'innovation' announced or celebrated without some discussion of its transferability. Discourses of diffusion are becoming increasingly central to the way that we develop, communicate and frame environmental law ideas. And yet, this significant dimension of environmental law practice seems to have outgrown existing conceptual scaffolding and scholarly vocabularies. The concept, and intentionally unfamiliar terminology, of 'contagious lawmaking' creates a space for both fleshing out, and problematizing, the phenomenon of the dynamic and multi-directional transfer of environmental law ideas. This article sets the stage for further study of the global diffusion of environmental law. It does so by identifying the phenomenon of contagious lawmaking and by making explicit some of the terminological and methodological challenges implicated in its study. The article draws on narratives of the 'global' diffusion of environmental impact assessment, cited as 'the most widely adopted environmental management tool in the world'. © The Author(s) 2019. 
650 0 4 |a Diffusion 
650 0 4 |a environmental impact assessment 
650 0 4 |a environmental law methodologies 
650 0 4 |a environmental law scholarship 
650 0 4 |a environmental policy transfer 
650 0 4 |a transplants 
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773 |t Journal of Environmental Law