Fear and Loathing in the San Juan Islands
Endangered Orcas and the Legitimacy of Environmental Law
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4138616 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Herbert (University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 1781-1796 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a130173p |
| OpenAlex | W1998460898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 54 |
Although a healthy environment is generally recognized as an important public good, environmental regulation often meets significant opposition. The legitimacy of environmental law is thus very much an uncertain political project, as is evident in many struggles over environmental protection. I use and extend literatures on legal consciousness, legal geographies, and environmental regulation to analyze a controversy that emerged over efforts to regulate vessels in the presence of endangered orca whales in the Pacific Northwest. I suggest that a significant component of the opposition to these regulations stemmed from a widespread distrust and fear of the federal government. This distrust and fear were sharply accentuated by the fact that the regulations were to be imposed on the space of the sea, an area commonly viewed as best left unregulated or as deeply unregulatable. Given the arguable need for robust state action to protect the environment, on the sea as well as on land, these ambient fears are significant, and pose notable obstacles to the legitimacy of environmental law
Consciousness · Distrust · Endangered species · Environmental consciousness · Environmental ethics · Environmental law · Environmental protection · Environmentalism · Geography · Harm · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Coastal and Marine Management · International Maritime Law Issues · Law · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
Policing Space
Going by the book
Emotion, Social Theory, and Social Structure
The Common Place of Law
Smart Regulation
Responsive Regulation
The Spatial, the Legal and the Pragmatics of World-Making
Environment and EnforcementRegulation and the Social Definition of Pollution
Nature Identification
Rights of Inclusion
Legitimacy, Social Identity, and the Mobilization of Law
Motivation for Compliance with Environmental Regulations
Tourists getting close to whales, is it what whale-watching is all about
Socio-Political Contexts, Identity Formation, and Regulatory Compliance
Regulation and Compliance Motivations
Crime and Punishment
Profiling and Police Legitimacy
Rooted in the soil
Cashing in on Cetourism
Duty, Fear, and Tax Compliance
Motivating Management
The legal geographies reader
"When Whales "Speak for Themselves
Sovereignty, Territory, and the Mapping of Mobility
Future Promises for Contemporary Social and Cultural Geographies of the Sea
Conscience, Significant Others, and Rational Choice
Situating Legal Consciousness
In the Name of Equal Rights
Articulation between Neoliberal and State-Oriented Environmental Regulation
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2019 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |