Full Description
This timely Research Handbook discusses the challenges brought about by the need to adapt to a changing climate. It considers how adaptation is necessary to address impacts resulting from the warming of the Earth's atmosphere which is already unavoidable due to past emissions.
With adaptation policies around the world still in their infancy, the book examines the legal challenges and barriers to climate change adaptation and how can they be overcome. It brings together expert contributors to consider topics ranging across tort and insurance law, disaster law, water law, marine law, planning law, biodiversity law, green buildings, pollution control, displacement, agriculture and energy.
With its transnational and multilevel approach, the Research Handbook on Climate Change Adaptation Law will be an essential resource for academics in the field of climate change policy and law, policymakers and other government officials working on climate change, and NGOs working in the field of climate change.
Contributors: R.W. Adler, R. Byrne, M. Faure, M. Gromilova, K.H. Hirokawa, N. Jägers, R. Lyster, A.M. Pohrib, J. Rosenbloom, T. Stephens, A. Trouwborst, D. van Niekerk, J. Verschuuren, L.F. Wiley
Contents
Contents:
Preface
1. Introduction
Jonathan Verschuuren
2. Climate Change Adaptation Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Related Documents
Jonathan Verschuuren
3. Adaptation and Climate Justice
Rosemary Lyster
4. Climate Change Induced Displacement and International Law
Mariya Gromilova and Nicola Jägers
5. Climate Change Adaptation and Compensation
Michael Faure
6. Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Law
Dewald van Niekerk
7. Climate Change Adaptation and Public Health Law
Lindsay F. Wiley
8. Climate Change Adaptation and Agricultural and Forestry Law
Robert W. Adler
9. Climate Change Adaptation and Water Law
Jonathan Verschuuren
10. Climate Change Adaptation and Marine and Coastal Law
Tim Stephens
11. Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity Law
Arie Trouwborst
12. Climate Change Adaptation and Land Use Planning Law
Keith H. Hirokawa and Jonathan Rosenbloom
13. Climate Change Adaptation and Green Building
Keith H. Hirokawa and Aurelia Marina Pohrib
14. Climate Change Adaptation and Environmental and Pollution Control Law
Jonathan Verschuuren
15. Climate Change Adaptation and Electricity Infrastructure
Rosemary Lyster and Rebekah Byrne
Index
