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Record Nr.

UNISA996344244003316

Titolo

Climate change . Volume I Legal responses and global responsibility : international law and global governance / / Oliver C. Ruppel, Christian Roschmann, Katharina Ruppel-Schlichting (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baden-Baden, Germany : , : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, , 2013

ISBN

3-8452-4278-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1017 p.)

Disciplina

344.04633

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Law and legislation

Climate change mitigation - International cooperation

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 at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE EDITORS; THE CONTRIBUTORS; PART I: INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW - A NEW LEGAL DISCIPLINE?; 1 Intersections of Law and Cooperative Global Climate Governance - Challenges in the Anthropocene; 2 Whose Climate, which Ethics? On the Foundations of Climate Change Law ; 3 Legal Strategies to Come to Grips with Climate Change ; 4 Climate Change Law: Objectives, Instruments and Structures of a New Area of Law; PART II: CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RIGHTS; 5 Climate Change and Human Rights ; 6 Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and Climate Change

7 Climate Change Adaptation and Human Rights: An Equitable View8 Climate Change and Human Rights: What Follows for Corporate Human Rights Responsibility? ; 9 Climate Change and Gender Justice: International Policy and Legal Responses ; 10 Climate Change and Children's Rights: An International Law Perspective ; PART III: CLIMATE CHANGE, TRADE, INVESTMENT AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION; 11 Climate, Trade and Investment Law in the Global Green Economy; 12 Two Stories about EU Climate Change Law and Policy; 13 The Emissions Trading System in the Context of Climate Change: China's Response

14 Climate Change, Human Security and Regional Integration: The Example of the Southern African Development CommunityPART IV: CLIMATE CHANGE, THE LAW OF THE SEA AND SEA-LEVEL RISE; 15



Climate Change Challenges and the Law of the Sea Responses ; 16 Holding Back the Waves? Sea-level Rise and Maritime Claims; 17 Disappearing States: Harnessing International Law to Preserve Cultures and Society ; 18 Climate Change and Small Island Claims in the Pacific ; PART V: JUDICIAL REVIEW AND INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION

19 Some Perspectives on Global Governance, Judicial Review and Climate Change 20 Climate Change, Global Governance and International Criminal Justice ; 21 Climate Change Litigation: A Global Tendency ; 22 International Climate Change Cases ; 23 Public Interest Litigation and Climate Change - An Example from Kenya ; 24 Injunctions against Climate Change? ; 25 Climate Change and Liability: An Overview of Legal Issues ; PART VI: INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE LAW AND CROSSCUTTING ISSUES; 26 Limitations of Risk Law

27 International Climate Law and Mining Regulation - Perspectives from Developing Countries 28 Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Developed and Developing Country Perspective ; 29 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: What is the Role of Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge? ; 30 Climate Engineering and International Law: Final Exit or the End of Humanity?; Annex Contents Volume II Climate Change: International Law and Global Governance Volume II: Policy, Diplomacy and Governance in a Changing Environment

Sommario/riassunto

This two volume study systematically addresses both international climate change law and global climate change governance. It deals with international law and the multiple regulatory regimes which reflect fragmentation in the absence of a universal climate change regime. International climate change law, global climate governance, and diplomacy are interrelated and extremely complex, and each volume explores these areas from a variety of doctrinal, transdisciplinary, and thematic perspectives. *** Volume I [ISBN 978 3 8329 7797 9] assesses the most pressing impacts of climate change on various