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Environmental Regulation — Liability or Responsibility?

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Contemporary Challenges in Regulating Global Crises

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Al Gore’s inconvenient truth made global warming an inescapable political and social conundrum from the mouth of someone who might otherwise had been viewed as a hegemonically compromised politician. What brought him to the point of committing his political presence to the anti-global warming science and movement? Melting ice!

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    Mark Findlay (Professor of Law, Professor of Criminal Justice)

  2. University of Sydney, Australia

    Mark Findlay (Professor of Law, Professor of Criminal Justice)

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Findlay, M. (2013). Environmental Regulation — Liability or Responsibility?. In: Contemporary Challenges in Regulating Global Crises. International Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009111_8

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