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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438244903321

Titolo

Climate change and the law / / Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi, Michael Mehling, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; ; New York, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

1-283-93613-5

94-007-5440-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 693 pages)

Collana

Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice, , 1534-6781 ; ; 21

Altri autori (Persone)

HolloErkki J

KulovesiKati

MehlingMichael

Disciplina

346.046

Soggetti

Environmental law, International

Climatic changes

Global warming - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Climate law as an emerging discipline -- pt. 2. International climate law : architecture and institutions -- pt. 3. International climate law : cross-cutting issues -- pt. 4. International climate law : sectoral issues -- pt. 5. Comparative climate law.

Sommario/riassunto

Climate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives. In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and



procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law. Climate Change and the Law explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a new discipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.”.