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Courts as Actors in Global Environmental Politics: Litigation and Norm Fusion

Courts as Actors in Global Environmental Politics: Litigation and Norm Fusion

Gönenç, Defne

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Pol

General LawInternational RelationsSocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 23, 2026

ISBN10: 1041406363
ISBN13: 9781041406365
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 23 2026
Pages: 256
Language: English

Environmental conflicts are increasingly being fought in courtrooms rather than legislatures. Yet can litigation do more than resolve individual disputes? Can it reshape the norms that govern the relationship between human rights and the environment?

In Courts as Actors in Global Environmental Politics, Defne Gönenç explores how courts are reshaping the relationship between environmental protection and human rights, revealing how legal struggles can create new ways of understanding the right to a clean and healthy environment. Gönenç introduces the concept of norm fusion to explain how litigation can bring together previously distinct normative frameworks and contribute to broader processes of legal and political change. Drawing on landmark cases from India and Turkey, Defne Gönenç offers a timely account of how activists, lawyers, judges, and state officials use litigation to link environmental concerns with human rights claims.

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