Adjudicating climate change : state, national, and international approaches

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Burns, William C. G. (Author), Osofsky, Hari M. , 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , c2009
Subjects:
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