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- Offers comprehensive and up to date presentation of climate and related energy law
- Expert writings, based on comparative research results
- Is essential reading for the methodology of “Climate Law”
- Includes full documentation of sources, concepts and literature
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 21)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline
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International Climate Law – Architecture and Institutions
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International Climate Law – Architecture and Institutions
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International Climate Law – Cross-Cutting Issues
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International Climate Law – Sectoral Issues
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About this book
Climate Change and the Law is the first scholarly effort to systematically address doctrinal issues related to climate law as an emergent legal discipline. It assembles some of the most recognized experts in the field to identify relevant trends and common themes from a variety of geographic and professional perspectives.
In a remarkably short time span, climate change has become deeply embedded in important areas of the law. As a global challenge calling for collective action, climate change has elicited substantial rulemaking at the international plane, percolating through the broader legal system to the regional, national and local levels. More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.
Climate Change and the Law explores the rich diversity of international, regional, national, sub-national and transnational legal responses to climate change. Is climate law emerging as a new legal discipline? If so, what shared objectives and concepts define it? How does climate law relate to other areas of law? Such questions lie at the heart of this new book, whose thirty chapters cover doctrinal questions as well as a range of thematic and regional case studies. As Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), states in her preface, these chapters collectively provide a “review of the emergence of a newdiscipline, its core principles and legal techniques, and its relationship and potential interaction with other disciplines.”
Keywords
- Adaptation to Climate Change
- Agriculture and Climate
- BAT
- Best Available Technology
- CDM
- Clean Development Mechanism
- Climate Change
- Climate Change Convention
- Climate Change and Law
- Climate Law
- Climate Policies on Law
- Emission Mitigation
- Emission Trading
- Energy Policies
- Environmental Law
- Flood Control
- Global Warming
- Housing and Climate
- Kyoto Mechanisms
- Kyoto Protocol
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This edited collection provides a unique contribution to the scholarship debate on climate change. … This volume is thus a solid collection of pieces which I would certainly recommend to anyone who wish to gain an improved understanding of the complex web of legal norms addressing climate change. … the book also represents an interesting reference tool for policy makers and practitioners involved in the ongoing discussions on climate change regulation and governance.” (Emanuela Orlando, Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 72 (3), November, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Erkki J. Hollo
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Strovolos, Cyprus
Kati Kulovesi
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Ecological Institute, Washington D.C., USA
Michael Mehling
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change and the Law
Editors: Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi, Michael Mehling
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5440-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5439-3Published: 04 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7865-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5440-9Published: 04 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 693
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Climate Change Management and Policy, Renewable and Green Energy, Business and Management, general
Industry Sectors: Finance, Business & Banking, Law