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Research handbook on climate disaster law : barriers and opportunities / edited by Rosemary Lyster (Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, The University of Sydney Law School, Australia and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law), and Robert R.M. Verchick (Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans, Senior Fellow in Disaster Resilience Leadership, Tulane University, US).
Lyster, Rosemary editor.; Verchick, Robert R. M. editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2018
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Research handbook on climate disaster law : barriers and opportunities / edited by Rosemary Lyster (Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, The University of Sydney Law School, Australia and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law), and Robert R.M. Verchick (Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans, Senior Fellow in Disaster Resilience Leadership, Tulane University, US).
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Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.
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9781786430038 (e-book)
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1 online resource (424 pages).
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eep9781786430038
Summary
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. The Research Handbook also emphasizes the moral responsibility we have to move as quickly as possible to create a carbon-free economy. This work will be of great appeal to legal scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who are interested in environmental law or climate change as it relates to international and domestic law and policy.
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Includes index.
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Research handbooks in climate law.
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Contents: Introduction / Rosemary Lyster and Robert R. M. Verchick
Part I International law and climate disasters
1. Wishful thinking?: the governance of climate change related disasters in the Anthropocene / Tim Stephens
2. The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capacities in the international climate change regime / Lavanya Rajamani
3. The evolving nature of sovereignty in the context of climate change / Christine Bakker
4. International environmental law and climate disasters / Jacqueline Peel
5. Climate-induced displacement and climate disaster law: barriers and opportunities / Rosemary Lyster and Maxine Burkett
Part II Public law and climate disasters
6. Governance principles and climate disasters: constitutional and administrative law issues / Daniel A. Farber
7. Disaster law and order / Lisa Grow Sun
8. Occupational health and safety law / Sid Shapiro and Katherine Tracy
Part III
Environmental law and climate disasters
9. Adaptive law / Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold
10. Planning for disaster / Robert R. M. Verchick
11. Building law and disasters / Teresa Parejo-Navajas and Michael B. Gerrard
12. The uneasy case for disaster buyouts / Susan S. Kuo
13. Water law and climate disasters / Robin Kundis Craig
14. Protecting the power grid from climate disaster / Rosemary Lyster and Robert R. M. Verchick
15. The law of the polar bear / John Copeland Nagle
16. Agriculture, climate disasters and the law / Jonathan Verschuuren
Part IV
Private law and climate disasters
17. Tort law and normative rupture / R. Henry Weaver and Douglas A. Kysar
18. CLimate change and property law / John D. Echeverria
19. Private law and climate disasters: insurance law / Michael Faure and Qihao He
20. Climate change and fiduciary investors: weathering a disaster scenario / M. Scott Donald
Index.

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