Full Description
Climate change is causing a geological transition, defining a new era in which the Earth System is configured through human action. The emergence of a global polity through physical, economic and social interaction demands a global response to this phenomenon which cannot be modelled on traditional political and legal concepts centred around the nation-state. This Research Handbook explores the implementation of climate constitutionalism on a global scale, considering both language and substance in order to design adequate normative patterns for addressing climate change. Against the narrative of the Anthropocene and its implications for the law, carefully curated chapters provide a critical approach to global environmental constitutionalism, analysing the problems of sustainability and global equity that are so necessarily intertwined with the causes and consequences of climate change. Recognising the adaptation and mitigation demands implied by climate change, this astute Handbook explores how to develop constitutional discourses and strategies to address these issues, and thereby tackle the negative effects of climate change whilst also advancing a more sustainable, equitable and responsible global society.
Timely and engaging, this Research Handbook will prove vital reading for students and scholars of environmental, constitutional and administrative law and policy. Climate change practitioners, policy makers and activists will also find its insights highly informative.
Contributors include: S. Atapattu, S. Borràs, K. Bosselmann, E. Cocciolo, G.M. Cuadros, E. Daly, P. de Araujo Ayala, B.H. Desai, R.J. Heffron, A. Hornborg, J. Jaria-Manzano, L.J. Kotzé, J.R. May, D. McCauley, K. Morrow, M. Powers, J.M. Pureza, B.K. Sidhu, A. Sinden
Contents
Contents:
1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism
Jordi Jaria-Manzano and Susana Borràs
2. The Anthropocene Challenge to our Worldview
Alf Hornborg
3. Law in the Anthropocene
Jordi Jaria-Manzano
4. A global environmental constitution for the Anthropocene's climate crisis
Louis J. Kotzé
5. The Atmosphere as a Global Commons
Klaus Bosselmann
6. Global environmental constitutionalism as a constitutionalism of the Earth
José Rubens Morato Leite and Patryck de Araujo Ayala
7. Global Constitutionalism as an Ambivalent Script
José Manuel Pureza
8. The Fragility of Climate, Human Responsibility and Finding the Impetus to Act Decisively--Investigating the Potential of the Ethics of Care
Karen Morrow
9. A Human Rights Framework for the Anthropocene
Amy Sinden
10. Climate Change as a Common Concern of Humankind. Some Reflections on International Law-making Process
Bharat H. Desai and Balraj K. Sidhu
11. Environmental Rights, Responsibility and Care: A New Constitutional Paradigm
Gregorio Mesa Cuadros
12. Environmental Justice, Climate Justice and Constitutionalism: Protecting Vulnerable States and Communities
Sumudu Attapatu
13. Climate Migration, Gender and Poverty
Susana Borràs
14. Global Climate Constitutionalism and Justice in the Courts
James R. May and Erin Daly
15. Energy Transition: Reforming Social Metabolism
Melissa Powers
16. Capitalocene, Thermocene and the Earth System: Global law and Connectivity in the Anthropocene Age
Endrius Cocciolo
17. Beyond Energy Justice: Towards a Just Transition
Raphael Heffron and Darren McCauley
18. Conclusion: Exploring a Constitution for the Climate
Jordi Jaria-Manzano
Index
