Criminological and legal consequences of climate change
By: edited by Stephen Farrall, Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French
Series: Oñati international series in law and society; Oñati international series in law and society
Publisher: Hart Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; Portland, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781849461863
Subjects: Climatic changes; Congresses; Law and legislation; Liability for climatic change damages
Description: This edited collection, the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain in 2010, explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community. A novel feature of the book is the consideration given to the potential synergies between the two disciplinary foci, thus to encourage among legal scholars and criminologists not only an analysis of the consequences of climate change from these perspectives but to bring these fields together to provide a unique, inter-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which climate change does, or could, impact on our societies. Such an inter-disciplinary approach is necessary given that climate change is a multifaceted phenomenon and one which is intimately linked across disciplines. To study this topic from the point of view of a single social science discipline restricts our understanding of the societal consequences of climate change. It is hoped that this edited collection will identify emerging areas of concern, illuminate areas for further research and, most of all, encourage future academic discussion on this most critical of issues
Notes: "This book stems from a seminar held in April 2010 at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : exploring the legal and criminological consequences of climate change : an introduction / Stephen Farrall, Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French; title: Where might we be headed? : some of the possible consequences of climate change for the criminological research agenda / Stephen Farrall; title: International legal responses to the challenges of a lower carbon future : energy law for the twenty-first century / Catherine Redgwell; title: UK climate change litigation : between hard and soft framing / Chris Hilson; title: Climate change and paradoxical harm / Rob White; title: Corporate governance and climate change / Sally Wheeler; title: Climate change, environmental (in)security, conflict and crime / Nigel South; title: Analysis of climate change from a human rights perspective / Tom Obokata; title: Climate change and aid funding : an appraisal of recent developments / Anna La Chimia; title: Climate change : effects on mobility of EU workers and the need to safeguard supplementary (occupational) pension rights / Konstantina Kalogeropoulou; title: Defining pollution down : forestry, climate change and the dark figure of carbon emissions / Mark Halsey; title: Personal carbon trading : towards sustainable consumption in an age of climate change and energy constraints / Peter Doran; title: State responsibility for the adverse impacts of climate change on individuals : assessing the potential for an interdisciplinary approach / Matthew Hall; title: Situating climate change in (international) law : a triptych of competing narratives /  Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French.