Adjudicating climate change
Subtitle: state, national, and international approaches
By: William C.G. Burns & Hari M. Osofsky (eds.).
Contributors: Burns, William C. G.; Osofsky, Hari M., 1972-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521879705
Subjects: Global warming -- Law and legislation; Liability for environmental damages; Global warming -- Law and legislation -- United States; Liability for environmental damages -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : 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 : the Minnesota environmental cost valuation regulation / Stephanie Stern; title: Limiting 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.