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Anne Dienelt

University of Hambourg, Germany (CAT Group)
Metamorphoses of Law(s)? A critical exploration of planetary boundaries and their meaning for the law relating to the environment
18 March 2024 - 29 March 2024
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Dr. Anne Dienelt is a senior research fellow and lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her interdisciplinary postdoc project on resilience, states and law looks into the adverse effects of climate change on societies and legal systems, in which she also analyses de lege lata and de lege ferenda approaches to climate change effects in a comparative study of German and French law. Anne currently also serves as a young academy fellow of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg.

Research  Interests

International and national Climate Change law, German constitutional law, German administrative law, public international law.

Metamorphoses of Law(s)? A critical exploration of planetary boundaries and their meaning for the law relating to the environment
(Collaborative project, awarded a NetIAS Constructive Advanced Thinking grant, 2021-2024)

The consequences of climate change necessitate a transition to sustainability. In the age of the Anthropocene, Earth system scientists identified in 2009 one influential way of thinking about what sustainability means in more practical terms thanks to the “planetary boundaries”. The concept refers to 9 inter-acting biophysical thresholds, considered true boundaries that must not be crossed to avoid abrupt, non-linear, potentially catastrophic, and largely unpredictable changes in the environment and on the planet. However, 7 planetary boundaries have already been transgressed. The scientists proposed a shift away from the essentially sectoral analyses of limits to growth aimed at minimizing negative externalities, toward the estimation of a “safe operating space” for human development. But how can this concept of planetary boundaries be operationalised in social sciences and law?

To explore the potential of the concept in social sciences and law, the team aims to highlight three key areas: Biodiversity & Climate Interactions, Health & the Environment, and Technologies & Science. For each issue, three critical reading grids of the law(s) relating to the environment, meaning different fields of international and national law that protect the environment, human rights law, economic law, etc., are applied, articulating the items: identification of actors, participation process and emergence of solutions. The proposed interdisciplinary project (law and social sciences) is motivated by a sense of urgency to react across all disciplines.

Key Publications

 

Dienelt, Anne. The Climatization of International Peace and Security–A Missed Opportunity?. In: Peel/Maljean-Dubois (eds.). The Hague Academy's Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations Series, Brill 2023 (forthcoming)

Dienelt, Anne. "When Humanitarians go to War: A European Road to'Civilized'Warfare?." (2023). In: van Aaken et al. (eds.). Oxford Handbook on International Law in Europe, OUP 2023 (Forthcoming)

Dienelt, Anne. Armed Conflicts and the Environment – Complementing the Laws of Armed Conflict with Human Rights Law and International Environmental Law. Springer 2022

Online workshop organized by the "Constructive Advanced Thinking" Research Group led by Marion Lemoine-Schonne, 2023-2024 Paris IAS Fellow
20 Mar 2024 09:30 -
20 Mar 2024 12:30,
Paris :
Planetary boundaries: a legal concept in the making for climate justice?

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2023-2024