Adjudicating climate change
Subtitle: state, national, and international approaches
By: edited by William C.G. Burns, Hari M. Osofsky
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781107638662
Subjects: Liability for environmental damages; Law and legislation; Global warming
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview : the exigencies that drive potential causes of action for climate change / William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky; title: State action as political voice in climate change policy : a case study of the Minnesota environmental cost valuation regulation / Stephanie Stern; title: Litigating climate change at the coal mine / Lesley K. McAllister; title: Cities, land use, and the global commons : genesis and the urban politics of climate change / Katherine Trisolini & Jonathan Zasloff; title: Atmospheric trust litigation / Mary Christina Wood; title: The intersection of scale, science, and law in Massachusetts v. EPA / Hari M. Osofsky; title: Biodiversity, global warming, and the United States Endangered Species Act : the role of domestic wildlife law in addressing greenhouse gas emissions / Brendan R. Cummings Kassie R. Siegel; title: An emerging human right to security from climate change : the case against gas flaring in Nigeria / Amy Sinden; title: Tort-based climate litigation / David A. Grossman; title: Insurance and climate change litigation / Jeffrey W. Stempel; title: The World Heritage Convention & Climate Change : the case for a climate-change mitigation strategy beyond the Kyoto Protocol / Erica J. Thorson; title: The Inuit petition as a bridge? Beyond dialectics of climate change and indigenous peoples' rights / Hari M. Osofsky; title: Bringing climate change claims to the accountability mechanisms of international financial institutions / Jennifer Gleason & David B. Hunter; title: Potential causes of action for climate change impacts under the United Nations Fish Stock Agreement / William C.G. Burns; title: Climate change litigation : opening the door to the International Court of Justice / Andrew Strauss; title: The implications of climate change litigation : litigation for international environmental law-making / David B. Hunter; title: Conclusion : adjudicating climate change across scales / Hari M. Osofsky.