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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burns, William C. G., Osofsky, Hari M., 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview: the exigencies that drive potential causes of action for climate change / William C.G. Burns and 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.