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Absent Environments Offers A Novel Transdisciplinary Approach To Environmental Law, Its Principles And Its Mechanics, As Tested In Its Contextual Application To The Urban Environment. The Book Traces The Conceptual And Material Absence Of Communication Between The Human And The Natural, And Controversially Includes Such An Absence Within A System Of Law And A System Of Geography Which Effectively Remain Closed To Environmental Considerations.--book Jacket. The Law: Autopoiesis And Environmental Law -- The City: Autopoiesis, Society, Reality -- Couplings: Horizons, Exclusion, Justice -- Risk: Future, Science And The Precautionary Principle -- Community: Withdrawal, Intergenerational Equity And Environmental Rights -- Waste: Openness, Memory And Forgetting. Andreas Philippopoulos-mihalopoulos. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [223]-250) And Index.