Adjudicating climate change : state, national, and international approaches
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Overview : the exigencies that drive potential causes of action for climate change
- 2. State action as political voice in climate change policy : a case of the Minnesota environmental cost valuation regulation
- 3. Litigating climate change at the coal mine
- 4. Cities, land use, and the global commons : genesis and the urban politics of climate change
- 5. Atmospheric trust litigation
- 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 greenhouse gas emissions
- 8. An emerging human right to security from climate change : the case against gas flaring in Nigeria
- 9. Tort-based climate litigation
- 10. Insurance and climate change litigation
- 11. The World Heritage Convention & Climate Change : the case for a climate-change mitigation strategy beyond the Kyoto Protocol
- 12. The Inuit petition as a bridge beyond dialectics of climate change and indigenous peoples' rights
- 13. Bringing climate change claims to the accountability mechanisms of international financial institution
- 14. Potential causes of action for climate change impacts under the United Nations Fish Stock Agreement
- 15. Climate change litigation : opening the door to the International Court of Justice
- 16. The implications of climate change litigation : litigation for international environmental law-making
- 17. Conclusions : adjudication climate change across scales