The Law's Critical Role in Developing Human-Environment Relationships after COVID-19 Pandemic (A Study of Ecofeminism)

ABSTRACT

The relationship between humans and the environment has managed to evolve throughout history. This relationship can be seen in both how people interact with nature and in the environmental laws they pass. These two things demonstrate how humans rule the environment. The COVID-19 pandemic has become one of the catalysts for rethinking the human-nature relationship and the impact of human dominance on the environment. Ecofeminism has emerged as a viable theory for combating this dominance. The historical development of environmental law as well as ecofeminism studies on the significance of environmental law will be examined in this study. This research is historically and philosophically oriented normative and qualitative jurisprudential research. The findings show that environmental law has developed over time in three distinct periods traditional, modern, and post-modern. Three laws have been used to address environmental issues throughout Indonesia's history of environmental law development. Despite government efforts to uphold the framework of environmental law based on the idea of anthropocentrism, there are global environmental problems. The study of Ecofeminism and the urgent need for environmental laws that emphasize balance and combat human dominance of the environment must be built upon after the COVID-19 Pandemic. According to Ecofeminism, every legislature must establish this human-environmental relationship in order to end human dominance that endangers the environment. © 2023 WITPress. All rights reserved.