Research Handbook on Climate Change Law and Loss & Damage

Research Handbook on Climate Change Law and Loss & Damage
Author: Doelle, Meinhard
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2021-11-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788974026

This timely Research Handbook offers an insightful review of how legal systems Ð whether domestic, international or transnational Ð can and should adjust to fairly and effectively support loss and damage (L&D) claims in climate change law.Ê International contributors guide readers through a detailed assessment of the history and current state of L&D provisions under the UN climate regime and consider the opportunities to fund L&D claims both within and outside the UN climate system.Ê

Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law

Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law
Author: Reins, Leonie
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 555
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839101598

This meticulously revised second edition provides a comparative overview of climate change mitigation issues and international regulatory approaches, bringing together expert contributors to analyse key sectors such as energy, transport, cities, industry, land use, agriculture and waste.

Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts

Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts
Author: Jan McDonald
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788112237

This topical Research Handbook examines the legal intersections of climate change, oceans and coasts across multiple scales and sectors, covering different geographies and regions. With expert contributions from Europe, Australasia, the Pacific, North America and Asia, it includes insightful chapters on issues ranging across the impacts of climate change on marine and coastal environments. It assesses institutional responses to climate change in ocean and marine governance regimes, adaptation to climate impacts on ocean and coastal systems and communities, and climate change mitigation in marine and coastal environments. Through a plurality of voices, disciplinary and geographical perspectives, this Research Handbook explores cross-cutting themes of institutional complexity, fragmentation, scale and design trade-offs.

Climate Change Litigation

Climate Change Litigation
Author: Jacqueline Peel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107036062

This book examines how litigation over climate change shapes the choices of governments, corporations and the public regarding mitigation and adaptation.

Research Handbook on Climate Change Adaptation Policy

Research Handbook on Climate Change Adaptation Policy
Author: E.C.H. Keskitalo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2019
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN: 1786432528

This topical and engaging Research Handbook illustrates the variety of research approaches in the field of climate change adaptation policy in order to provide a guide to its social and institutional complexity.

Research Handbook on International Environmental Law

Research Handbook on International Environmental Law
Author: Fitzmaurice, Malgosia
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2021-11-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1786439719

This thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this foundational Handbook combines practical and theoretical analyses to cover a wide array of cutting edge issues in international environmental law (IEL). It provides a comprehensive view of the complexity of IEL, both as a field in its own right, and as part of the wider system of international law.

Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law

Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law
Author: Benoît Maye
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2017-10-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1785366599

This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an overview of the debates on how the law does, and could, relate to migration exacerbated by climate change. It contains conceptual chapters on the relationship between climate change, migration and the law, as well as doctrinal and prospective discussions regarding legal developments in different domestic contexts and in international governance.

Research Handbook on International Law and Cities

Research Handbook on International Law and Cities
Author: Aust, Helmut P.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-08-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788973283

This groundbreaking Research Handbook provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the impact of international law on cities. It sheds light on the growing global role of cities and makes the case for a renewed understanding of international law in the light of the urban turn.

Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries

Research Handbook on Law, Governance and Planetary Boundaries
Author: Duncan French
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2021-04-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1789902746

This comprehensive Research Handbook is the first study to link law and Earth system science through the epistemic lens of the planetary boundaries framework. It critically examines the legal and governance aspects of the framework, considering not only each planetary boundary, but also a range of systemic issues, including the ability of law to keep us within the planetary boundaries’ safe operating space.

Climate in Court

Climate in Court
Author: de Vilchez Moragues, Pau
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1800886896

Answering the key question of whether there is an obligation for States to define and enact sound climate policies in order to avoid the impacts of global warming, this timely book provides expert analysis on recent global climate cases, assessing not only the plaintiffs’ claims but also the legal reasoning put forward by the courts.