Climate change liability
By: edited by Michael Faure, Marjan Peeters
Series: New horizons in environmental and energy law; New horizons in environmental and energy law
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781849802864
Subjects: Liability for climatic change damages; Law and legislation; Climatic changes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Michael Faure and Marjan Peeters; title: Liability with and Liability from the Precautionary Principle in Climate Change Cases  -- Miriam Haritz; title: High Noon : Prevention of Climate Damage as the Primary Goal of Liability?  -- Jaap Spier; title: Liability of Member States and the EU in View of the International Climate Change Framework : Between Solidarity and Responsibility  -- Javier de Cendra de Larragán; title: The Regulatory Approach in the EU in View of Liability for Climate Change Damage  -- Marjan Peeters; title: Potential Liability of European States Under the ECHR for Failure to Take Appropriate Measures with a View on Adaptation to Climate Change  -- Armelle Gourtin; title: Climate Change Litigation in the UK : Its Feasibility and Prospects  -- Giedre Kaminskaite-Salters; title: Liability for Climate Change-Related Damage in Domestic Courts : Claims for Compensation Within the USA  -- Elena Kosolapova; title: Civil Liability for Global Warming in The Netherlands  -- Chris van Dijk; title: Will Civil Society Take Climate Changers to Court? : a Perspective from Dutch Law  -- Phon Van den Biesen; title: Governmental Liability : an Incentive for Appropriate Adaptation? -- Ben Schueler-- Concluding Remarks /-- Michael Faure and Marjan Peeters.