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"Climate change has thrust us into a 'no-analog' future in which climate disasters threaten to cause extraordinary damage, with little precedent to guide policymakers and private actors. Addressing such risks requires a firm grounding in disaster risk reduction, climate change policy,...
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Edward Elgar Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Cheltenham, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Research handbooks in climate law
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"Climate change has thrust us into a 'no-analog' future in which climate disasters threaten to cause extraordinary damage, with little precedent to guide policymakers and private actors. Addressing such risks requires a firm grounding in disaster risk reduction, climate change policy, and environmental law. This Research Handbook provides readers with that integrated foundation, investigating topics in international law as well as domestic programs from countries around the world. Because climate disasters affect both government and non-government actors, the Research Handbook covers issues of both public and private law. We know from the scientific literature and recent experience that the laws addressing natural disasters are insufficient to confront disasters amplified by climate change. The Research Handbook acknowledges that the majority of disasters are susceptible in some way to changes in the earth's climate and explores the barriers to, and opportunities for, finding legal solutions to the risks posed by such disasters. It shows that climate change must be considered in order to fully understand disaster risk and the respective legal and policy responses."-- |
| Carrier Form: | xiv, 397 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781786430021 1786430029 |
| Index Number: | K3585 |
| CLC: | D912.6-62 |
| Call Number: | D912.6-62/R432-3 |
| Contents: |
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law / Wishful thinking? The governance of climate change-related disasters in the Anthropocene / The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in the international climate change regime / The evolving nature of sovereignty in the context of climate change / International environmental law and climate disasters / Climate-induced displacement and climate disaster law : barriers and opportunities / Governance principles and climate disaster : constitutional and administrative law issues / Disaster law and order / Adaptive law / Planning for climate change disaster / Building and construction law / The uneasy case for disaster buyouts / Water law and climate disasters / Protecting the power grid from climate disasters / The law of the polar bear / Agriculture, climate disasters, and the law / Tort law and normative rupture / Climate change and property law / Private law and climate disasters : insurance law / Climate change and fiduciary investors : weathering a disaster scenario / |