Adjudicating climate change : state, national, and international approaches
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : William C G Burns; Hari M Osofsky
- ناشر : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
- شابک / ISBN : 9780511596360
Description
Overview : the exigencies that drive potential causes of action for climate change / William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky -- State action as political voice in climate change policy : a case of the Minnesota environmental cost valuation regulation / Stephanie Stern -- Litigating climate change at the coal mine / Lesley K. McAllister -- Cities, land use, and the global commons : genesis and the urban politics of climate change / Katherine Trisolini & Jonathan Zasloff -- Atmospheric trust litigation / Mary Christina Wood -- The intersection of scale, science, and law in Massachusetts v. EPA / Hari M. Osofsky -- Biodiversity, global warming, and the United States Endangered Species Act : the role of domestic wildlife law in addressing greenhouse gas emissions / Brendan R. Cummings & Kassie R. Siegel -- An emerging human right to security from climate change : the case against gas flaring in Nigeria / Amy Sinden -- Tort-based climate litigation / David A. Grossman -- Insurance and climate change litigation / Jeffrey W. Stempel -- The World Heritage Convention & Climate Change : the case for a climate-change mitigation strategy beyond the Kyoto Protocol / Erica J. Thorson -- The Inuit petition as a bridge beyond dialectics of climate change and indigenous peoples' rights / Hari M. Osofsky -- Bringing climate change claims to the accountability mechanisms of international financial institutions / Jennifer Gleason & David B. Hunter -- Potential causes of action for climate change impacts under the United Nations Fish Stock Agreement / William C.G. Burns -- Climate change litigation : opening the door to the International Court of Justice / Andrew Strauss -- The implications of climate change litigation : litigation for international environmental law-making / David B. Hunter.
This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world.
