TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lord,Richard
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Climate change liability: transnational law and practice 
AV  - K955 .C557 2012
U1  - 344.04/6342 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Liability for climatic change damages
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Conflict of laws
KW  - Liability for environmental damages
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Part I. Legal, Scientific and Policy Aspects: 1. Introduction Jutta Brunne;e, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord and Lavanya Rajamani; 2. The scientific basis for climate change liability Myles Allen; 3. Overview of legal issues relevant to climate change Jutta Brunne;e, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord and Lavanya Rajamani; 4. Policy considerations Jutta Brunne;e, Silke Goldberg, Richard Lord and Lavanya Rajamani; Part II. National Laws: Asia and Pacific: 5. Australia Ross Abbs, Peter Cashman and Tim Stephens; 6. China Deng Haifeng; 7. India Lavanya Rajamani and Shibani Ghosh; 8. Indonesia Mas Achmad Santosa, Rifqi Assegaf and Josi Khatarina; 9. Japan Yukari Takamura; Africa/Middle East: 10. Egypt Dalia Farouk and Lamiaa Youssef; 11. Israel Issachar Rosen-Zvi; 12. Kenya Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Collins Odote; 13. South Africa Debbie Collier and Jan Glazewski; Europe and Eurasia: 14. European Union Ludwig Kra;mer; 15. Germany Hans-Joachim Koch, Michael Lührs and Roda Verheyen; 16. Poland Bartosz Kuras, Maciej Szewczyk, Dominik Walkowski, Tomasz Wardynski and Izabella Zielinska-Barlozek; 17. English law Silke Goldberg and Richard Lord; 18. Russia Fiona Mucklow Cheremeteff, Max Gutbrod, Daria Ratsiborinskaya and Sergei Sitnikov; North America: 19. Canada Meinhard Doelle, Dennis Mahony and Alex Smith; 20. United States of America Michael B. Gerrard and Gregory E. Wannier; Central and South America: 21. Brazil Yanko Marcius de Alencar Xavier and Pedro Lucas de Moura Soares; 22. Mexico Jose; Juan Gonzalez Marquez; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "As frustration mounts in some quarters at the perceived inadequacy or speed of international action on climate change, and as the likelihood of significant impacts grows, the focus is increasingly turning to liability for climate change damage. Actual or potential climate change liability implicates a growing range of actors, including governments, industry, businesses, non-governmental organisations, individuals and legal practitioners. Climate Change Liability provides an objective, rigorous and accessible overview of the existing law and the direction it might take in seventeen developed and developing countries and the European Union. In some jurisdictions, the applicable law is less developed and less the subject of current debate. In others, actions for various kinds of climate change liability have already been brought, including high profile cases such as Massachusetts v. EPA in the United States. Each chapter explores the potential for and barriers to climate change liability in private and public law"--
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