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Adjudicating Climate Change : State, National, and International Approaches.

This book examines lawsuits over climate change that have been brought around the world.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burns, William C. G.
Other Authors: Osofsky, Hari M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Adjudicating climate change; 1 Overview: The Exigencies That Drive Potential Causes of Action for Climate Change; Introduction; 1. Overview of Climate Change Science; 2. International Legal Responses to Climate Change; 3. Enter, Climate Adjudication; 4. The Need for Assessment; Part I Subnational Case Studies; 2 State Action as Political Voice in Climate Change Policy: A Case Study of the Minnesota Environmental Cost Valuation Regulati; 3 Litigating Climate Change at the Coal Mine.
  • 4 Cities, Land Use, and the Global Commons: Genesis and the Urban Politics of Climate Change5 Atmospheric Trust Litigation; Part II National Case Studies; 6 The Intersection of Scale, Science, and Law in Massachusetts v. EPA; 7 Biodiversity, Global Warming, and the United States Endangered Species Act: The Role of Domestic Wildlife Law in Addressing G; 8 An Emerging Human Right to Security from Climate Change: The Case Against Gas Flaring in Nigeria; 9 To.