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Where is 'the Environment'? Locating Nature in International Law

What do lawyers mean when we say ‘the environment’? Answering this somewhat simple question can unmake disciplinary foundations because it destabilizes formative assumptions in western law about the separation between subjects and objects of governance, between the social and the natural, and between the human and non-human. International lawyers understand 'the environment' and law's ability to govern it primarily through a western lens but so far such an understanding has perpetuated environmental crises instead of solving them. An openness to diverse cultural understandings of the relationship between law and nature provides a pathway for addressing environmental crises.