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Book SynopsisA breathtaking review which covers the major approaches and actors in the governance of climate change this carefully edited book includes essays from dozens of scholars who are shaping our understanding of responses to the real and existential risks of a warming world. The book is especially strong in its discussion of how critical social theory can help us understand the politics of climate change, in its histories of climate policy, and in the multiple perspectives it provides on the international climate regime across sectors, institutions, countries and scales. I was impressed by the diversity of authors, including the number of women contributors, and by the efforts to connect research to political action.'- Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, US'Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have crafted a remarkable volume, gathering over fifty cutting-edge scholars engaging every aspect of climate governance-what it has been, what it is, and what it could and should be. This is truly a one-stop shop for grasping the diversity of research on climate governance. It will engage students exploring the field, scholars seeking to understand the state of the art, and practitioners looking to make sense of the challenges of responding to this most crucial of global issues.'- Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto, Canada'As the ambit of climate governance has expanded out from the UN to encompass myriad actors at multiple levels, so too has the challenge of understanding the whole. This comprehensive and expertly edited Handbook provides the alpha and omega of climate governance scholarship. I confidently predict that it will become the standard reference for years to come.'- Andy Jordan, University of East Anglia, UKThe 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen is often represented as a turning point in global climate politics, when the diplomatic efforts to negotiate a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol failed and was replaced by a fragmented and decentralized climate governance order. In the post-Copenhagen landscape the top-down universal approach to climate governance has gradually given way to a more complex, hybrid and dispersed political landscape involving multiple actors, arenas and sites.Drawing upon contributions from more than 50 internationally renowned scholars, the Handbook assesses the state and direction of climate governance at multilateral, EU, national and local levels. The volume mobilizes multiple scholarly traditions ranging from grand theorizing to close empirical studies of micro-political practices, and spans the ideational and the material, the historical and the contemporary, the normative and the critical. The resulting collection of chapters represents the state of the art and most recent thinking in the rich and expanding scholarship on climate politics and governance.Contributors: C.E. Adler, P. Aldunce, D. Alegría, A. Anderson, S. Andresen, C. Åsberg, K. Bäckstrand, I. Bailey, G. Bang, S. Beck, M. Betsill, H. Betts, F. Biermann, R. Bórquez, M. Boström, H. Bulkeley, D. Ciplet, J. de Koning, L. Dilling, R.S. Dimitrov, K. Dingwerth, C. Dupont, R. Eckersley, F. Fischer, D.R. Fisher, T. Forsyth, V. Galaz, A.M. Galli, J.F. Green, R. Grundmann, A. Gupta, J. Gupta, A. Hansson, P.G. Harris, S. Hayes, K. Hochstetler, M. Hulme, K. Indvik, V. Jankovic, S. Jasanoff, C. Karlsson, M. Khan, M. Klintman, A. Kronsell, M. Lederer, B.-O. Linnér, R.D. Lipschutz, E. Lövbrand, H. Lovell, M. Mason, S. Matti, J. McGee, A. Neimanis, P. Newell, S. Oberthür, A. Oels, C. Okereke, E.A. Page, C.F. Parker, A. Persson, S. Rayner, T. Rayner, P. Revell, J.T. Roberts, H. Schroeder, B. Siebenhüner, M.M. Skutsch, P. Stalley, H. Stevenson, J. Stripple, E. Turnhout, H. van Asselt, E. Viola, J. Vogler, J. Wettestad, V. Wibeck, F. ZelliTrade Review‘A breathtaking review which covers the major approaches and actors in the governance of climate change this carefully edited book includes essays from dozens of scholars who are shaping our understanding of responses to the real and existential risks of a warming world. The book is especially strong in its discussion of how critical social theory can help us understand the politics of climate change, in its histories of climate policy, and in the multiple perspectives it provides on the international climate regime across sectors, institutions, countries and scales. I was impressed by the diversity of authors, including the number of women contributors, and by the efforts to connect research to political action.’ -- Diana Liverman, University of Arizona, US‘Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have crafted a remarkable volume, gathering over fifty cutting-edge scholars engaging every aspect of climate governance—what it has been, what it is, and what it could and should be. This is truly a one-stop shop for grasping the diversity of research on climate governance. It will engage students exploring the field, scholars seeking to understand the state of the art, and practitioners looking to make sense of the challenges of responding to this most crucial of global issues.’ -- Matthew Hoffman, University of Toronto, Canada‘As the ambit of climate governance has expanded out from the UN to encompass myriad actors at multiple levels, so too has the challenge of understanding the whole. This comprehensive and expertly edited Handbook provides the alpha and omega of climate governance scholarship. I confidently predict that it will become the standard reference for years to come.’ -- Andy Jordan, University of East Anglia, UK‘In a field already densely populated with handbooks, the Research Handbook on Climate Governance offers a fresh approach to the burgeoning field of climate governance. Drawing on an impressive list of world-leading scholars, Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have masterfully fashioned a magnificent tour d'horizon of a wide range of climate-related topics, from the normative dimensions of climate governance to its concrete modes of operation and technological underpinnings. This landmark compendium is an indispensable resource for scholars, students and practitioners engaged in climate governance around the world.’ -- Philipp Pattberg, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands‘Bäckstrand and Lövbrand have expertly assembled a cutting-edge collection of essays that look critically at the changing landscape of climate governance in the “post-Copenhagen era”. Moving beyond the typical handbook, the collection provides a rich offering of both theoretical and empirical reflections to help students and researchers alike think creatively about governance needs and opportunities in the face of this wicked problem. The book is both an excellent teaching tool and a source of creative inspiration for future climate change research.’ -- Sikina Jinnah, American University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I THEORIZING CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 1. Global Governance Markus Lederer 2. Realism John Vogler 3. Political Economy Peter Newell 4. Science and Technology Studies Sheila Jasanoff 5. Governmentality Johannes Stripple and Harriet Bulkeley 6. Deliberative Democracy Hayley Stevenson 7. Feminism Annica Kronsell 8. Normative Theory Edward A. Page PART II PROCESSES AND SITES OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 9. Climate Diplomacy Radoslav S. Dimitrov 10. Geopolitics David Ciplet, J. Timmons Roberts and Mizan Khan 11. Fragmentation Fariborz Zelli and Harro van Asselt 12. Minilateralism Jeffrey McGee 13. The North-South Divide Joyeeta Gupta 14. Transnationalism Klaus Dingwerth and Jessica F. Green 15. Vulnerability Tim Forsyth 16. Climate Skepticism Reiner Grundmann SECTION III THE STATE AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 17. Climate Leadership Charles F. Parker and Christer Karlsson 18. China Phillip Stalley 19. The United States Guri Bang 20. The European Union Claire Dupont and Sebastian Oberthür 21. Brazil Eduardo Viola and Kathryn Hochstetler SECTION IV: NON-STATE AGENTS AND INSTITUTIONS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 22. NGOs Michele Betsill 23. Business Chukwumerije Okereke 24. International Bureaucracies Bernd Siebenhüner 25. Science Silke Beck 26. Civil Society Dana R. Fisher and Anya M. Galli 27. Citizen-Consumers Mikael Klintman and Magnus Boström 28. News Media Alison Anderson 29. The City Vladimir Janković SECTION V: MODES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 30. EU Emissions Trading Jørgen Wettestad 31. Low Carbon Economies Heather Lovell 32. Carbon Aaccounting Esther Turnhout, Margaret M. Skutsch and Jessica de Koning 33. Multi-stakeholder Governance Hannah Betts and Heike Schroeder 34. Climate Policy Integration Harro van Asselt, Tim Rayner and Åsa Persson 35. Climate Policy Instruments Simon Matti 36. Climate Engineering Anders Hansson, Steve Rayner and Victoria Wibeck SECTION VI: NORMATIVE IDEALS OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 37. Regime Effectiveness Steinar Andresen 38. Ecological Democracy Frank Fischer 39. Transparency Aarti Gupta and Michael Mason 40. Security Angela Oels 41. Adaptation Lisa Dilling 42. Posthumanist Imaginaries Astrida Neimanis, Cecilia Åsberg and Suzi Hayes 43. Resilience Carolina E. Adler, Paulina Aldunce, Katherine Indvik, Denís Alegría, Roxana Bórquez and Victor Galaz SECTION VII: THE FUTURE OF CLIMATE GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE 44. Multilateralism in Crisis? Robyn Eckersley 45. Reform Options Frank Biermann 46. Re-politicizing Climate Governance Ian Bailey and Piers Revell 47. Property and Privatization Ronnie D. Lipschutz 48. Innovation Investments Björn-Ola Linnér and Steve Rayner 49. Knowledge Pluralism Mike Hulme 50. The Future Paul G. Harris Index

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Book SynopsisThe literature on multi-level governance (MLG), an approach that explicitly looks at the system of the many interacting authority structures at work in the global political economy, has grown significantly over the last decade. The authors in this volume examine how multilevel governance (MLG) systems address climate change and water policy.By taking a comparative perspective, the contributors seek to examine the impact of multilevel governance on the environment. They show how the interplay between autonomous governments at the sub-national, federal or supranational and international levels in MLG systems create unique challenges and opportunities. Both cutting greenhouse gas emissions and allocating river flows require tough political or legal decisions that create winners and losers. This book offers a cogent examination of the successes and failures of the United States, European Union, Canada and Australia in grappling with these policy problems.This book will appeal to academics and students of public policy, international affairs and environment studies. Those working in government institutions will find the research both interesting and invaluable.Contributors: D. Benson, D.J. Fiorino, D. Gordon, B.T. Heinmiller, A. Jordan, K. Kern, D. Macdonald, J. Meadowcroft, M. Pallemaerts, B.G. Rabe, I. WeibustTable of ContentsContents: PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE 1. Introduction Inger Weibust 2. Too Many Levels or Just About Right? Multilevel Governance and Environmental Performance Daniel J. Fiorino PART II: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF WATER RESOURCES 3. Subsidiarity as a ‘Scaling Device’ in Environmental Governance: The Case of the European Union David Benson and Andrew Jordan 4. Multilevel Governance and the Politics of Environmental Water Recoveries B. Timothy Heinmiller 5. Playing a Zero Sum Game: Sharing Water between Jurisdictions in Federations Inger Weibust PART III: MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION 6. Climate Governance in the European Union Multi-level System: The Role of the Cities Kristine Kern 7. Bottom-up versus Top-down: The Evolving American Climate Policy Odyssey Barry G. Rabe 8. Institutional Strength, Intergovernmental Relations, and National Climate Policy Coordination: Australia and Canada Compared David Gordon and Douglas Macdonald 9. Allocating Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Amongst Sectors and Jurisdictions in Federated Systems: The European Union, Germany and Canada Douglas Macdonald PART IV: FINDINGS ON EFFECTIVENESS AND GOVERNANCE PATTERNS 10. Ensuring the Effectiveness of European Union Environmental Law: From Supranational Lawmaking to Multilevel Enforcement Marc Pallemaerts 11. What is Multilevel Environmental Governance? When Does It Work? Inger Weibust Index

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Book SynopsisThis research review identifies several of the most important and influential journal articles and papers in the broad field of climate law. The editor discusses essential scholarship not just on the international law making process and on mitigation (emissions trading, taxes, the CDM, REDD+, etc.), but also on adaptation (in a wide variety of fields such as sea level rise, water, biodiversity, cities, agriculture etc.), liability, climate justice and human rights, and on climate engineering. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Jonathan Verschuuren PART I INTRODUCING CLIMATE LAW 1. John C. Dernbach and Seema Kakade (2008), ‘Climate Change Law: An Introduction’, Energy Law Journal, 29 (1), 1¬–31 PART II THEORIES AND APPROACHES 2. Harro van Asselt, Francesco Sindico and Michael A. Mehling (2008), ‘Global Climate Change and the Fragmentation of International Law’, Law and Policy, 30 (4), October, 423–49 3. William Boyd (2010), ‘Climate Change, Fragmentation, and the Challenges of Global Environmental Law: Elements of a Post-Copenhagen Assemblage’, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32 (2), 457–550 4. Jacqueline Peel, Lee Godden and Rodney J. Keenan (2012), ‘Climate Change Law in an Era of Multi-Level Governance’, Transnational Environmental Law, 1 (2), October, 245–80 5. Joanne Scott (2011), ‘The Multi-Level Governance of Climate Change’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1, 25–33 6. Charlotte Streck (2012), Innovativeness and Paralysis in International Climate Policy’, Transnational Environmental Law, 1 (1), April, 137–52 7. Rowena Maguire (2013), ‘The Role of Common but Differentiated Responsibility in the 2020 Climate Regime’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 4, 260–69 8. Meinhard Doelle (2010), ‘Early Experience with the Kyoto Compliance System: Possible Lessons for MEA Compliance System Design’, Climate Law, 1, 237–60 9. Darragh Conway (2010), ‘The United Nations Security Council and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities’, Climate Law, 1, 375–407 PART III CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION 10. Neil Gunningham (2012), ‘Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance’, Transnational Environmental Law, 1 (1), April, 119–35 11. Javier de Cendra de Larragán (2010), ‘From the EU ETS to a Global Carbon Market: An Analysis and Suggestions for the Way Forward’, European Energy and Environmental Law Review, 19 (1), February, 2–17 12. Michael Mehling (2012), ‘Between Twilight and Renaissance: Changing Prospects for the Carbon Market’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 4, 277–90 13. Stefan E. Weishaar and Edwin Woerdman (2012), ‘Auctioning EU ETS Allowances: An Assessment of Market Manipulation from the Perspective of Law and Economics’, Climate Change, 3 (3-4), 247–63 14. Marjan Peeters (2006), ‘Inspection and Market-based Regulation through Emissions Trading: The Striking Reliance on Self-monitoring, Self-reporting and Verification’, Utrecht Law Review, 2 (1), June, 177–95 15. Kirsten H. Engel (20006), ‘Mitigating Global Climate Change in the United States: A Regional Approach’, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 14, 54–85 16. Bo Kong and Carla Freeman (2013), ‘Making Sense of Carbon Market Development in China’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 3, 194–212 17. Jonathan S. Masur and Eric A. Posner (2011), ‘Climate Regulation and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis’, California Law Review, 99 (6), 1557–99 18. Reuven S. Avi-Yonah and David M. Uhlmann (2009), ‘Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax Is a Better Response to Global Warming Than Cap and Trade’, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 28 (3), 3–50 19. Kateryna Holzer and Nashina Shariff (2012), ‘The Inclusion of Border Carbon Adjustments in Preferential Trade Agreements: Policy Implications’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 3, 246–60 20. Cameron Hutchison (2006), ‘Does TRIPS Facilitate or Impede Climate Change Technology Transfer into Developing Countries?’, University of Ottawa Law and Technology Journal, 3 (2), 517–37 21. Rafael Leal-Arcas (2012), ‘Unilateral Trade-related Climate Change Measures’, Journal of World Investment and Trade, 13 (6), 875–927 22. Felix Ekardt, Bettina Hennig and Hartwig von Bredow (2011), ‘Land Use, Climate Change and Emissions Trading’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 3, 371–83 23. Maosheng Duan (2011), ‘Reform of the Clean Development Mechanism: Where Should We Head For?’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2, 169–77 24. Nicola Durrant (2011), ‘Legal Issues in Carbon Farming: Biosequestration, Carbon Pricing, and Carbon Rights’, Climate Law, 2 (4), 515–33 25. Annecoos Wiersema (2014), ‘Climate Change, Forests, and International Law: REDD's Descent into Irrelevance’, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 47 (1), January, 1–66 Volume II Contents: Introduction An introduction to both volumes by the editor appears in Volume I PART I CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION 1. J.B. Ruhl (2010), ‘Climate Change Adaptation and the Structural Transformation of Environmental Law’, Environmental Law Review, 40 (2), 363–431 2. Robin Kundis Craig (2010), ‘“Stationarity is Dead” - Long Live Transformation: Five Principles for Climate Change Adaptation Law’, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 34, 9–73 [65] 3. Edna Sussman, David C. Major, Rachel Deming, Pamela R. Esterman, Adeeb Fadil, Amy Fisher, Fred Fucci, Roberta Gordon, Caroline Harris, J. Kevin Healy, Cullen Howe, Kathy Robb and Jeff Smith (2010), ‘Climate Change Adaptation: Fostering Progress through Law and Regulation’, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 18, 55–155 4. Alexis Saba, Michela Biasutti, Michael B. Gerrard and David B. Lobell (2013), ‘Getting Ahead of the Curve: Supporting Adaptation to Long-term Climate Change and Short-term Climate Variability Alike’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1, 3–23 5. Peter P.J. Driessen and Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick (2011), ‘Normative Aspects of Climate Adaptation Policies’, Climate Law, 2 (4), 559–81 6. Britta Horstmann and Achala Chandani Abeysinghe (2011), ‘The Adaptation Fund of the Kyoto Protocol: A Model for Financing Adaptation to Climate Change?’, Climate Law, 2 (3), 415–37 7. Jonathan Verschuuren and Jan McDonald (2012), ‘Towards a Legal Framework for Coastal Adaptation: Assessing the First steps in Europe and Australia’, Transnational Environmental Law, 1 (2), October, 355–79 8. Gabriel Eckstein (2009), ‘Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Security in a Climate Change World: Challenges and Opportunities for International Law and Policy’, Wisconsin International Law Journal, 27 (3), 409–61 9. Heleen-Lydeke P. Mees and Peter P.J. Driessen (2011), ‘Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Areas: Climate-Greening London, Rotterdam, and Toronto’, Climate Law, 2 (2), 251–80 10. Magali Dreyfus (2013), ‘Are Cities a Relevant Scale of Action to Tackle Climate Change?: Some Reflections to Inform the Debate on the Post-2020 Regime’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 4, 283–92 11. Patricia E. Salkin (2009), ‘Sustainability and Land Use Planning: Greening State and Local Land Use Plans and Regulations to Address Climate Change Challenges and Preserve Resources for Future Generations’, William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, 34 (1), 121–70 12. Arie Trouwborst (2011), ‘Conserving European Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: The Bern Convention, the European Union Birds and Habitats Directives and the Adaptation of Nature to Climate Change’, Review of European Community and International Environmental Law, 20 (1), 62–77 13. Carmen G. Gonzalez (2011), ‘Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity: Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System’, Fordham Environmental Law Review, XXII, 493–521 14. Robert W. Adler (2012), ‘Balancing Compassion and Risk in Climate Adaptation: U.S. Water, Drought and Agricultural Law’, Florida Law Review, 64 (1), 201–67 PART II CLIMATE JUSTICE 15. Rosemary Lyster (2013), ‘Towards a Global Justice Vision for Climate Law in a Time of “Unreason”’, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 4 (1), March, 32–57 16. Daniel Bodansky (2010), ‘Introduction: Climate Change and Human Rights: Unpacking the Issues’, Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, 38 (3), 511–24 17. Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner and Randall S. Abate (2013), ‘International and Domestic Law Dimensions of Climate Justice for Arctic Indigenous Peoples’, Revue Générale de Droit, 43, 113–50 18. Mariya Gromilova (2014), ‘Revisiting Planned Relocation as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy: The Added Value of a Human Rights-Based Approach’, Utrecht Law Review, 10 (1), January, 76–95 PART III LIABILITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE DAMAGE 19. Richard S.J. Tol and Roda Verheyen (2004), ‘State Responsibility and Compensation for Climate Change Damages—A Legal and Economic Assessment’, Energy Policy, 32 (9), June, 1109–30 20. Christina Voigt (2011), ‘State Responsibility for Climate Change Damages’, Nordic Journal of International Law, 77 (1-2), 1–22 21. Michael G. Faure and André Nollkaemper (2007), ‘International Liability as an Instrument to Prevent and Compensate for Climate Change’, Stanford Journal of International Law and Stanford Environmental Law Journal, Symposium: Climate Change Risk, 26A (1), June, 123–79 22. Jacqueline Peel (2011), ‘Issues in Climate Change Litigation’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1, 15–24 23. Brian J. Preston (2011), ‘Climate Change Litigation (Part 1)’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1, 3–14 24. Brian J. Preston (2011), ‘Climate Change Litigation (Part 2)’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 1, 244–63 25. Christina Ross, Evan Mills and Sean B. Hecht (2007), ‘Limiting Liability in the Greenhouse: Insurance Risk-Management Strategies in the Context of Global Climate Change’, Stanford Environmental Law Journal: Symposium on Climate Change Risk, 26A, 251–334 26. Mark Byrne (2010), ‘Climate Crime: Can Responsibility for Climate Change Damage be Criminalised?’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 3, 278–90 PART VII CLIMATE ENGINEERING 27. Jesse Reynolds (2011), ‘The Regulation of Climate Engineering’, Law, Innovation and Technology, 3 (1), 113–36 28. Tuomas Kuokkanen and Yulia Yamineva (2013), ‘Regulating Geoengineering in International Environmental Law’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 3, 161–67 29. Jesse L. Reynolds and Floor Fleurke (2013), ‘Climate Engineering Research: A Precautionary Response to Climate Change?’, Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2, 101–7

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Book SynopsisClimate change cannot be fully understood or effectively mitigated without considering its ethical aspects. This volume brings together recent journal articles, written by eminent experts in the field, to illuminate the ethics of climate change and the related questions of justice. The editor has selected works that explore the themes of environmental philosophy, duties and responsibilities, intergenerational justice, international equity, cosmopolitanism, human rights, individual obligations and climate policy.With an original introduction by the editor, this volume is an essential resource for scholars, students, activists and policymakers.Trade Review‘. . . this book is a ‘one-stop-shop’ to save practitioners time and to provide new-comers a foundation.’Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgements Introduction Paul G. Harris PART I ETHICS, THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE 1. John Barkdull and Paul G. Harris (1998), ‘The Land Ethic: A New Philosophy for International Relations’, Ethics and International Affairs, 12, December, 159–77 2. Sverker C. Jagers and Göran Duus-Otterström (2008), ‘Dual Climate Change Responsibility: On Moral Divergences between Mitigation and Adaptation’, Environmental Politics, 17 (4), 576–91 3. Jonathan Aldred (2009), ‘Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After’, New Political Economy, 14 (4), December, 469-88 4. Sujatha Byravan and Sudhir Chella Rajan (2010), ‘The Ethical Implications of Sea-Level Rise Due to Climate Change’, Ethics and International Affairs, 24 (3), Fall, 239–60 5. Paul G. Harris (2010) ‘Misplaced Ethics of Climate Change: Political vs. Environmental Geography’, Ethics, Place and Environment: A Journal of Philosophy and Geography, 13 (2), June, 215¬22 6. Dale Jamieson (2010), ‘Climate Change, Responsibility and Justice’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 16 (3), September, 431–45 PART II SYNOPSES OF CLIMATE JUSTICE 7. Stephen M. Gardiner (2004), ‘Ethics and Global Climate Change’, Ethics, 14 (3), April, 555–600 8. Ludvig Beckman and Edward A. Page (2008), ‘Perspectives on Justice, Democracy and Global Climate Change’, Environmental Politics, 17 (4), August, 527–35 9. Simon Caney (2009), ‘Justice and the Distribution of Greenhouse Gas Emissions’, Journal of Global Ethics, 5 (2), August, 125–46 10. Mathias Frisch (2012), ‘Climate Change Justice’, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 40 (3), Summer, 225–53 11. Simon Caney (2014), ‘Two Kinds of Climate Justice: Avoiding Harm and Sharing Burdens’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 22 (2), June, 125–49 PART III INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE 12. Lawrence E. Johnson (2003), ‘Future Generations and Contemporary Ethics’, Environmental Values, 12 (4), November, 471-87 13. Stephen M. Gardiner (2006), ‘A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption’, Environmental Values, 15 (3), August, 397¬413 14. Robin Attfield (2009), ‘Mediated Responsibilities: Global Warming and the Scope of Ethics,’ Journal of Social Philosophy, 40 (2), Summer, 225–36 PART IV EQUITY AND JUSTICE AMONG STATES 15. Henry Shue (1993), ‘Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions’, Law and Policy, 15 (1), January, 39–59 16. Paul G. Harris (1999), ‘Common but Differentiated Responsibility: The Kyoto Protocol and United States Policy’, New York University Environmental Law Journal, 7 (1), 27–48 17. Henry Shue (1999), ‘Global Environment and International Inequality’, International Affairs, 75 (3), July, 531–45 18. Steve Vanderheiden (2004), ‘Knowledge, Uncertainty and Responsibility: Responding to Climate Change’, Public Affairs Quarterly, 18 (2), April, 141–58 19. Jouni Paavola (2005), ‘Seeking Justice: International Environmental Governance and Climate Change’, Globalizations, 2 (3), 309–322 20. Eric A. Posner and Cass R. Sunstein (2008), ‘Climate Change Justice’, Georgetown Law Journal, 96 (5), June, 156–612 PART V COSMOPOLITANISM 21. Simon Caney (2005), ‘Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change’, Leiden Journal of International Law, 18 (4), December, 747–75 22. Axel Gosseries (2005), ‘Cosmopolitan Luck Egalitarianism and the Greenhouse Effect’, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 35, (Supplement 1), 279–309 23. Paul G. Harris (2008), ‘Climate Change and the Impotence of International Environmental Law: Seeking a Cosmopolitan Cure’, Penn State Environmental Law Review, 16 (2), Winter, 323–68 24. Aaron Maltais (2008), ‘Global Warming and the Cosmopolitan Political Conception of Justice’, Environmental Politics, 17 (4), August, 592–609 25. Paul G. Harris and Jonathan Symons (2010), ‘Justice in Adaptation to Climate Change: Cosmopolitan Implications for International Institutions’, Environmental Politics, 19 (4), July, 617–36 PART VI HUMAN RIGHTS 26. Tim Hayward (2007), ‘Human Rights versus Emissions Rights: Climate Justice and the Equitable Distribution of Ecological Space’, Ethics and International Affairs, 21 (4), Winter, 431–50 27. Derek Bell (2011), ‘Does Anthropogenic Climate Change Violate Human Rights?’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14 (2), 99–124 28. Avner de Shalit (2011), ‘Climate Change Refugees, Compensation and Rectification’, The Monist, 94 (3), July, 310–28 PART VII DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF INDIVIDUALS 29. Christopher Brown (2010), ‘A Litigious Proposal: A Citizen’s Duty to Challenge Climate Change, Lessons from Recent Federal Standing Analysis, and Possible State-Level Remedies Private Citizens Can Pursue’, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, 25 (2), Fall, 385–457 30. Marion Hourdequin (2010), ‘Climate, Collective Action and Individual Ethical Obligations’, Environmental Values, 19 (4), November, 443–64 31. Avram Hiller (2011), ‘Climate Change and Individual Responsibility’, The Monist, 94 (3), July, 349–68 32. Catriona McKinnon (2011), ‘Climate Change Justice: Getting Motivated in the Last Chance Saloon’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 14 (2), 195¬213 33. Steve Vanderheiden (2011), ‘Globalizing Responsibility for Climate Change’, Ethics and International Affairs, 25 (1), Spring, 65–84 PART VIII ETHICS, JUSTICE AND CLIMATE POLICY 34. Dale Jamieson (1992), ‘Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming’, Science, Technology and Human Values, 12 (2), Spring, 139¬53 35. Dale Jamieson (1996), ‘Ethics and Intentional Climate Change’, Climatic Change, 33 (3), July, 323¬36 36. Jouni Paavola and W. Neil Adger (2006), ‘Fair Adaptation to Climate Change’, Ecological Economics, 56 (4), April, 594–609 37. Madeleine Heyward (2007), ‘Equity and International Climate Change Negotiations: A Matter of Perspective’, Climate Policy, 7 (6), 518–34 38. Edward A. Page (2008),’Distributing the Burdens of Climate Change’, Environmental Politics, 17 (4), August, 556–75 39. Henry Shue (2011), ‘Face Reality? After You! A Call for Leadership on Climate Change’, Ethics and International Affairs, 25 (1), Spring, 17–26 40. David Schlosberg (2012), ‘Climate Justice and Capabilities: A Framework for Adaptation Policy’, Ethics and International Affairs, 26 (4), Winter, 445–61 41. Dale Jamieson (2013), ‘Climate Change, Consequentialism, and the Road Ahead’, Chicago Journal of International Law, 13 (2), 439–68

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Book SynopsisCongratulations to the editors , Anna Grear and Conor Gearty, on Choosing a Future: The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change. It is a fine publication and a superb contribution to a growing evidence base to support climate justice. I appreciate the hard work and dedication that went into such an ambitious publication; one that will certainly inform ongoing discussions on how to remedy the climate crisis. The focus as we approach 2015 must be on how to solve the climate crisis is a way that is fair and informed by human rights. This is the only approach that will ensure that climate actions are good for the planet and for people. This publication-and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment generally-is a great contribution to the international discourse.'- Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation Climate Justice, IrelandThe issue is no longer whether climate change is happening; it is rather what we should now be doing about it. Drawing together key thinkers and policy experts, this unique volume - also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - engages with the human dimensions of climate change, offering a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the challenging relationship between law and society in a time of climate crisis. The result is an imaginative, well-informed and provocative collection of contemporary engagements with the greatest challenge of the age, concerned not only to understand the current crisis but to offer perspectives on how it can be addressed. At the heart of this volume is the conviction that change is urgent, possible and morally imperative.Trade Review‘Congratulations to the editors , Anna Grear and Conor Gearty, on Choosing a Future: The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change. It is a fine publication and a superb contribution to a growing evidence base to support climate justice. I appreciate the hard work and dedication that went into such an ambitious publication; one that will certainly inform ongoing discussions on how to remedy the climate crisis. The focus as we approach 2015 must be on how to solve the climate crisis is a way that is fair and informed by human rights. This is the only approach that will ensure that climate actions are good for the planet and for people. This publication–and the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment generally–is a great contribution to the international discourse.’ -- Mary Robinson, President, Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, IrelandTable of ContentsEDITORIAL Choosing a Future: The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change Anna Grear and Conor Gearty INSIGHTS AND CONVERSATIONS: SPEAKING OF POLICY An Interview with Connie Hedegaard, European Union Commissioner for Climate Action Conor Gearty Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change Mary Robinson An interview with Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice Conor Gearty ARTICLES Climate Ethics and Human Rights John H Knox Directional Climate Justice: The Normative Relationship Between Moral Claim Rights and Directed Obligations Marcus Hedahl Changing Images Of Climate Change: Human Rights And Future Generations Henry Shue Trade in the Service of Climate Change Mitigation: The Question of Linkage Olivier De Schutter Towards ‘Climate Justice’? A Critical Reflection on Legal Subjectivity and Climate Injustice: Warning Signals, Patterned Hierarchies, Directions for Future Law and Policy Anna Grear Climate Justice: The Claim of the Past Stephen Humphreys Index

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Book SynopsisThe interaction between climate change and trade has grown in prominence in recent years. This Research Handbook contains authoritative original contributions from leading experts working at the interface between climate change and trade rules. Regional as well as international perspectives are taken into account to inform the complex questions that arise and redirect research efforts towards newly emerging issues.The Research Handbook on Climate Change and Trade Law discusses some of the most important challenges regarding conflicting interests at the intersection of trade, climate change and investment. The insightful chapters map from both regional and global perspectives the state of affairs in such diverse areas as: carbon credits and taxes, sustainable standard-setting, and trade in 'green' goods and services. This timely book redefines the interrelationship of trade and climate change for future scholarship and offers specific suggestions for much-needed research in topics such as energy, carbon taxes and credits, food, standardization, and investment.This Research Handbook will be essential reading for researchers and advanced students in international trade and investment law. It will also be an invaluable resource for practitioners and policymakers in this dynamic and highly significant area of law.Contributors include: M. Alder, P. Arnaiz, S. Bigdeli, J. Chaisse, T. Cottier, P. Delimatsis, A. Dimopoulos, F. Fleurke, A. Gourgourinis, A.H. Lim, J. McMahon, S. Melnyk, J. Munro, K. Nadakavukaren Schefer, R. Partain, T. Payosova, V. Pogoretskyy, D. Ramos, E. Reid, M. Rimmer, L. Tamiotti, J.P. Trachtman, A. vanDuzer, E. Vranes, M. Wu, M. Young, R. ZhangTrade ReviewThis is a fascinating volume in which the complicated relationship between climate change, trade and investment law is analyzed by leading scholars in this domain in an exhaustive manner. A must for anyone interested in the broad relationship between climate change and trade law.' --Michael Faure, Maastricht University and Erasmus School of Law, the Netherlands and Flemish High Council of Environmental Enforcement (VHRM), Brussels, Belgium'This volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the interactions between public international law, trade law, and climate change law. Delimatsis has assembled an amazing collection of essays by leading scholars in Europe, North America, and Asia on key issues such as carbon taxes, border tax adjustments, climate standards and the market, climate services, investment, human rights, energy policy, and the role of climate in regional trade agreements. This Handbook deserves a place the desk of every climate policymaker.' --Steve Charnovitz, George Washington University'In the wake of the adoption of the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change Agreement, the world is getting serious about sustainability. Nowhere do the challenges of charting a sustainable future come into sharper focus than at the intersection of trade law and climate change, which makes Panagiotis Delimatsis's Research Handbook on Climate Change and Trade Law critical reading for practitioners and scholars alike.' --Dan Esty, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: Climate change and trade law—challenges for governance and coordination Panagiotis Delimatsis PART I CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF THE WTO: THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS 1. Common Concern and the Legitimacy of the WTO in Dealing with Climate Change Thomas Cottier and Tetyana Payosova 2. Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in Transnational Climate Change Governance and the WTO: A Tale of Two ‘Interconnected Worlds’ or a Tale of Two ‘Crossing Swords’? Anastasios Gourgourinis 3. Duty to Protect, Climate Change and Trade Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer and Pablo Arnaiz PART II CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: TOPICAL ISSUES 4. Carbon Taxes, PPMs and the GATT Erich Vranes 5. WTO Law Constraints on Carbon Credit Mechanisms and Export Border Tax Adjustments Joel P. Trachtman 6. Feed-in Tariffs and the WTO Regulation of Subsidies – A Moment of Progressive Adjudication in Canada – Renewable Energy Sadeq Z. Bigdeli 7. Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement Panagiotis Delimatsis 8. Climate Change and Services Trade: What Role for the GATS? Michaël Alder, Aik Hoe Lim, and Ruosi Zhang 9. Trade Wars in the TRIPS Council: Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, and Climate Change Matthew Rimmer PART III CLIMATE CHANGE AND TRADE IN PERSPECTIVE: CURRENT CHALLENGES 10. Energy security, climate change and trade: does the WTO provide for a viable framework for sustainable energy security? Vitaliy Pogoretskyy and Sergii Melnyk 11. Food Security and Agricultural Trade: An Early Warning for Climate Change! Joseph A. McMahon 12. The WTO Environmental Goods Agreement: From Multilateralism to Plurilateralism Mark Wu 13. Climate Change, Green Paradox Models and International Trade Rules Roy Andrew Partain PART IV CLIMATE CHANGE AND TRADE: GLOBAL AND REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES 14. Trade Measures to Address Climate Change: Territory and Extraterritoriality Margaret A. Young 15. EU Climate Law and the WTO Emily Reid 16. EU Climate Law and Human Rights: New Prospects for Judicial Environmental Activism? Floor Fleurke 17. Climate Change in the TPP and the TTIP James Munro PART V CLIMATE CHANGE, TRADE AND INVESTMENT 18. Climate Change and Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Identifying the Linkages Angelos Dimopoulos 19. The Complex Relationship between International Investment Law and Climate Change Initiatives: Exploring the Tension J. Anthony VanDuzer 20. Rules and Disputes on Foreign Investment in Renewable Energies – Exploring the Nexus of Trade and Investment Treaties Julien Chaisse Conclusion 21. Climate change mitigation and the WTO framework Ludivine Tamiotti and Daniel Ramos Index

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Book SynopsisCities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their social fabric and environment. In addition, increasing urbanization due to population growth, economic change, and sprawl places huge burdens upon the institutions, as well as the infrastructure, that deliver, protect, and treat urban water. This book assesses the challenges facing the world's cities in providing reliable, safe, and plentiful supplies through infrastructural, economic, legal, and political strategies.The book considers engineering, social science, and built environment issues, with close examination of experiences in California and Australia, and their global implications. It addresses urban stream syndrome and related issues' and includes historical as well as contemporary insights into water sustainability in cities. Conservation, wastewater re-use, green infrastructure innovations, and the water energy nexus from the vantage point of urban water management are discussed in depth. The authors conclude that while throughout history cities have faced the twin challenges of too much - or too little - water at inopportune times, the impact of climate extremes on cities makes low-impact developments especially relevant.This comprehensive and timely assessment of the world's urban water-sustainability challenges will be of great interest to both students and academics in the field as well as urban water professionals and decision-makers.With contributions from Stanley B. Grant, Ashmita Sengupta, Lindsey Stuvick, Neeta Bijoor, Michael Sahimi, Meenakshi Arora, Vincent Pettigrove and Kristal BurryTrade Review'As the world's cities increasingly face problems of water shortages and degradation of water quality, a new approach is desperately needed. This book sets out a radically different vision for urban water management, but one that is founded on reality. The authors have used their experience and collaborations around the world to identify the best ideas for delivering sustainable urban water systems that benefit the community. They synthesise ideas from engineering, economics and sociology, meaning that practitioners and decision-makers all around the world will find this book invaluable. The world has long-needed a book like this. Now the world needs the ideas in it to be implemented!' --Tim D Fletcher, The University of Melbourne, Australia'From California to Melbourne, Mexico to Tokyo, Feldman and colleagues draw upon the successes and failures in management in these water-stressed cities to ultimately suggest a path toward The Water-Sustainable City. This fascinating read, written by recognized authorities in the field, tackles the difficult questions, the wicked problems. No stone is left unturned in their search for The Water-Sustainable City. Economic, legal, physical, historical, institutional, environmental, and political factors are all considered, among other things. What makes it unique though is the way in which the authors combine these various considerations, with their sights fixed firmly on The Water-Sustainable City. Perhaps what stands best testament to this book is the fact that the reader is left with the thought that The Water-Sustainable City is possible and is not a mere academic enigma! The only disappointment is that the book isn't printed on waterproof, plastic paper like children's books, as reading under a low-flow shower would be most appropriate.' --Andrew Hamilton, Federation University Australia and The University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I: OUR UNCERTAIN WATER FUTURE, OUR PRECARIOUS WATER PAST 1. Introduction – What Would A Water Sustainable City Look Like? 2. Lessons For An Urban Ecology Of Water: Historical Views, Environmental Experiences 3. Roles For Civil Engineering, Law And Institutions In Urban Water Management 4. Divergent Approaches – A Typology Of Traditional And Contemporary Alternatives As Seen In Los Angeles And Melbourne PART II: TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO WATER MANAGEMENT AND POLICY INNOVATION 5. The Water-Energy Footprint Of Large Cities – Productivity And Transitional Development 6. How Cities Value Water And Why It Matters: Economic And Non-Economic Approaches PART III: THE PATH FORWARD – TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, PRACTICES 7. Opportunities To Satisfy Urban Water Needs While Addressing The Urban Stream Syndrome 8. Low Impact Development – Indoor And Outdoor Innovations 9. New Forms Of Management And Governance For Urban Water Sustainability 10. Conclusions – Some Future Research Needs REFERENCES Index

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Book SynopsisCities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their social fabric and environment. In addition, increasing urbanization due to population growth, economic change, and sprawl places huge burdens upon the institutions, as well as the infrastructure, that deliver, protect, and treat urban water. This book assesses the challenges facing the world's cities in providing reliable, safe, and plentiful supplies through infrastructural, economic, legal, and political strategies.The book considers engineering, social science, and built environment issues, with close examination of experiences in California and Australia, and their global implications. It addresses urban stream syndrome and related issues' and includes historical as well as contemporary insights into water sustainability in cities. Conservation, wastewater re-use, green infrastructure innovations, and the water energy nexus from the vantage point of urban water management are discussed in depth. The authors conclude that while throughout history cities have faced the twin challenges of too much - or too little - water at inopportune times, the impact of climate extremes on cities makes low-impact developments especially relevant.This comprehensive and timely assessment of the world's urban water-sustainability challenges will be of great interest to both students and academics in the field as well as urban water professionals and decision-makers.With contributions from Stanley B. Grant, Ashmita Sengupta, Lindsey Stuvick, Neeta Bijoor, Michael Sahimi, Meenakshi Arora, Vincent Pettigrove and Kristal BurryTrade Review'As the world's cities increasingly face problems of water shortages and degradation of water quality, a new approach is desperately needed. This book sets out a radically different vision for urban water management, but one that is founded on reality. The authors have used their experience and collaborations around the world to identify the best ideas for delivering sustainable urban water systems that benefit the community. They synthesise ideas from engineering, economics and sociology, meaning that practitioners and decision-makers all around the world will find this book invaluable. The world has long-needed a book like this. Now the world needs the ideas in it to be implemented!' --Tim D Fletcher, The University of Melbourne, Australia'From California to Melbourne, Mexico to Tokyo, Feldman and colleagues draw upon the successes and failures in management in these water-stressed cities to ultimately suggest a path toward The Water-Sustainable City. This fascinating read, written by recognized authorities in the field, tackles the difficult questions, the wicked problems. No stone is left unturned in their search for The Water-Sustainable City. Economic, legal, physical, historical, institutional, environmental, and political factors are all considered, among other things. What makes it unique though is the way in which the authors combine these various considerations, with their sights fixed firmly on The Water-Sustainable City. Perhaps what stands best testament to this book is the fact that the reader is left with the thought that The Water-Sustainable City is possible and is not a mere academic enigma! The only disappointment is that the book isn't printed on waterproof, plastic paper like children's books, as reading under a low-flow shower would be most appropriate.' --Andrew Hamilton, Federation University Australia and The University of Melbourne, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I: OUR UNCERTAIN WATER FUTURE, OUR PRECARIOUS WATER PAST 1. Introduction – What Would A Water Sustainable City Look Like? 2. Lessons For An Urban Ecology Of Water: Historical Views, Environmental Experiences 3. Roles For Civil Engineering, Law And Institutions In Urban Water Management 4. Divergent Approaches – A Typology Of Traditional And Contemporary Alternatives As Seen In Los Angeles And Melbourne PART II: TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO WATER MANAGEMENT AND POLICY INNOVATION 5. The Water-Energy Footprint Of Large Cities – Productivity And Transitional Development 6. How Cities Value Water And Why It Matters: Economic And Non-Economic Approaches PART III: THE PATH FORWARD – TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, INSTITUTIONS, PRACTICES 7. Opportunities To Satisfy Urban Water Needs While Addressing The Urban Stream Syndrome 8. Low Impact Development – Indoor And Outdoor Innovations 9. New Forms Of Management And Governance For Urban Water Sustainability 10. Conclusions – Some Future Research Needs REFERENCES Index

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Book SynopsisWe live on an increasingly human-dominated planet. Our impact on the Earth has become so huge that researchers now suggest that it merits its own geological epoch - the 'Anthropocene' - the age of humans. Combining theory development and case studies of 'planetary boundaries', emerging infectious diseases, financial markets and geoengineering, this groundbreaking book explores the 'Anthropocene Gap' otherwise known as society's current failure to address the most profound environmental challenges of our times.What are the political and institutional implications of this new epoch? And what are some novel ways to analyze the complicated interplay between institutions, Earth system complexity and technology? This book offers one of the first explorations of political and institutional dimensions of the Anthropocene concept by providing a novel combination of institutional analysis along with insights from Earth system sciences. It provides an exploration of the role of technology for global environmental governance and defines a new agenda for political science analysis in the Anthropocene.Offering the first summary of the planetary boundaries debate, this cutting edge book will be of great interest to researchers concerned in the interplay between politics, technology, and global environmental change, and those interested in the debate surrounding the Anthropocene and 'planetary boundaries'.Contents: Foreword. The 'Anthropocene Gap' 1. Planetary Terra Incognita 2. Governance and Complexity 3. Earth System Complexity 4. Epidemics and Supernetworks 5. Engineering the Planet 6. Financial Markets, Robots and Ecosystems 7. Bridging the 'Anthropocene Gap' Epilogue: Back to London via the Baltic Sea References IndexTrade Review'Victor Galaz opens a new pathway, critically needed, yet breathtaking. In a thoughtful and inspirational manner, he takes on the challenge of how humanity is to navigate the unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of the Anthropocene. The focus is on the interplay between rapid nonlinear global environmental change and emerging technologies, like engineering the planet, tipping points, epidemic surprise or increased connectivity between financial markets, commodity markets, ecosystem services and underlying technologies. In a truly novel way, Galaz moves governance research to the very front of sustainability science and resilience thinking Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics is indeed a groundbreaking contribution, highly recommended!' --Carl Folke, Stockholm University, Sweden'The idea of the Anthropocene highlights urgent environmental, health and economic challenges facing humanity. This book shows clearly why shifts in power and governance must be core to our responses, but also that new, creative, multi-scale approaches are needed. Candid, reflective and richly-illustrated, this is a must-read contribution to the debate of our age about how to build sustainable futures.' --Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK'Global Environmental Governance, Technology and Politics should top the reading list for anyone interested in exploring the nature of governance and the role of technology in this new human-dominated epoch known as the Anthropocene. Combining insights from complexity, innovation and institutional design, Galaz brings cutting edge research to enlighten the current challenges facing humankind. This is a must read.' --Michael Schoon, Arizona State University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword. The ‘Anthropocene Gap’ 1. Planetary Terra Incognita 2. Governance and Complexity 3. Earth System Complexity 4. Epidemics and Supernetworks 5. Engineering the Planet 6. Financial Markets, Robots and Ecosystems 7. Bridging the ‘Anthropocene Gap’ Epilogue: Back to London via the Baltic Sea References Index

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Book SynopsisGovernments around the world have been trying to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades. This detailed Handbook considers the spectrum of legal and market-based instruments as well as strategies and policies adopted around the world and suggests more effective, comprehensive and responsive ways of managing climate change mitigation.As well as taking stock of the current and proposed legal instruments, the book looks at the wider policy and economic aspects of coping with climate change. It provides a comparative overview of key issues across Europe, the United States, Asia-Pacific and the BRICS countries, and discusses domestic, regional and international law and governance. With perspectives from academia, government and private practice, the expert contributors analyse key sectors such as energy, transport, buildings, industry, land use and waste. Important issues such as carbon trading, financing and litigation are also addressed. The book demonstrates the variety of approaches taken and their challenges with a view of fostering more effective and pragmatic ways of managing climate change mitigation.This timely book will be an authoritative resource for scholars of climate change law and policy, whilst also providing a rigorous overview for upper-level students. Policymakers will gain insights from the comparative perspectives, and practitioners will appreciate the broad range of practical issues addressed.Contributors: M. Alessi, J. Allmon, H. Van Asselt, D. Belis, L. Berzanskis, S. Bogojevic, D. Conway, C. Egenhofer, J.B. Eisen, B. Evans, N. Fujiwara, M.B. Gerrard, K. Hussey, M. Iguchi, S. Kakade, C.K. Siebert, E. Knight, A. Korppoo, J. Li, J. Lin, H. Masondo, M. Mehling, K. Hannon Michel, A. Monroe, H. Nakamura, J. Núñez Ferrer, A.S. Olesen, U. Outka, S.-L. Penttinen, F. Rambau, L. Reins, L. Ristino, A. Rohatgi, R. Seroa da Motta, I. Skinner, N. Srivastava, K. Talus, T.S.A. Loi, C.Tung, K. Upston-Hooper, G. Van Calster, W. Vandenberghe, S. Wattiaux, P. Wehrheim, J. Wettestad, A. Yamamoto, E. Yliheljo, N. Bin ZahurTrade Review‘Van Calster, Vandenberghe and Reins have led an impressive group of specialists from around the world to deliver the definitive book on climate change mitigation. Mitigation law for all sectors (energy, industry, transport, buildings, waste, land use, forestry), as well as all relevant mitigation instruments (carbon trading, finance, litigation) are discussed in great detail and with an eye on all relevant countries and regions in the world, such as the EU, the United States, China and the other BRICS countries. This book is a valuable source of information on mitigation law and will be the starting point for any future research and decision-making on climate change mitigation.’ -- Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Editorial Introduction G. Van Calster, W. Vandenberghe and L. Reins 1. The Changing Architecture of International Climate Change Law Harro Van Asselt, Michael Mehling and Clarisse Kehler Siebert PART I ENERGY 2. Development of the Sustainability Aspects of EU Energy Policy Sirja-Leena Penttinen and Kim Talus 3. Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Measures in the US Electric Power Industry Joel B. Eisen 4. Reflections on the Chinese Carbon Market Christopher Tung PART II TRANSPORT 5. The Mitigation of Transport’s CO2 Emissions in the EU: Policy Successes and Challenges Ian Skinner 6. Climate Change Mitigation in the Transportation Sector in the United States Laurel Berzanskis 7. Climate Transport Policy and Law in the Asia-Pacific Region Masahiko Iguchi and Hiroki Nakamura PART III BUILDINGS 8. How do the European Union and the Private Sector Pave the Way to More Sustainable Buildings? Sophie Wattiaux 9. Energy Efficiency of Buildings in the United States Albert Monroe 10. Climate Change and Buildings – An Asia-Pacific Primer Abhishek Rohatgi, Tian Sheng Allan Loi and Nahim Bin Zahur PART IV INDUSTRY 11. Impacts of EU Climate and Energy Policies on Industry Monica Alessi, Christian Egenhofer and Jorge Núñez Ferrer 12. An Overview of Climate Change Mitigation in the Industrial Sector of the United States Seema Kakade 13. How can the Asian Industry Contribute to Climate Change Mitigation Action? Noriko Fujiwara PART V LAND USE, LAND USE CHANGE AND FORESTRY 14. Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry - How to Enter the Climate Impact of Managing Biospheres and Wood into the EU's Greenhouse Gas Accounting Peter Wehrheim and Asger Strange Olesen 15. Legal Regimes for Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry in the United States Uma Outka 16. Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry: Asia-Pacific Bradley Evans PART VI WASTE MANAGEMENT 17. Waste Management in the EU Geert Van Calster 18. Challenges for Controlling GHG Emissions from U.S. Solid Waste Management - A Summary of Federal and Exemplary US State Efforts Jeffrey Allmon 19. Climate Mitigation and Waste Management in the Asia Pacific Karen Hussey PART VII CARBON TRADING 20. Blazing Trail or Flickering Flame? Market Mechanisms under the UNFCCC Darragh Conway 21. The EU Emissions Trading System: Frontrunner In Trouble Jørgen Wettestad 22. Carbon Trading in the United States Laurie Ristino and Katherine Hannon Michel 23. Market Design and Maturity in the Asia Pacific Eric Knight PART VIII CLIMATE FINANCE 24. Climate Finance in the European Union: Domestic and International Challenges David Belis 25. Towards Climate Compatible Development in Asia and Beyond - the Role of Official Development Assistance Aiichiro Yamamoto PART IX CLIMATE CHANGE LITIGATION 26. EU Climate Change Litigation: All Quiet on the Luxembourgian Front? Sanja Bogojević 27. Climate Change Litigation in the United States Michael B. Gerrard 28. Climate Change Litigation in Asia and the Pacific Jolene Lin PART X CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN THE BRICS COUNTRIES 29. Current Status of Mitigation Policies in Brazil Ronaldo Seroa da Motta 30. Climate Change Mitigation in Russia: Foreign Policy, Environmental Action or Simple Economics? Anna Korppoo, Karl Upston-Hooper and Emilie Yliheljo 31. Climate Change Mitigation in India Nidhi Srivastava 32. China’s Transition to Low Carbon Society : Drivers and Implementation Strategies Jun Li 33. Climate Change Mitigation in South Africa Happy Masondo, Faith Rambau Index

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Book SynopsisInspired by F.A. Hayek's Individualism and Economic Order, this book, edited by Yong Yoon, stands in contrast to the themes of that work by emphasizing that collective action operates differently from the way the market works. The chapters comprise papers written by James M. Buchanan, both with and without Yoon's co-authorship, after the publication of his Collected Works.In this book, the authors analyze political disorder that is caused by individualism and self-interest in democracy, focusing specifically on the American political commons. Buchanan and Yoon expertly examine a variety of topics within this theme: the public choice approach to political disorder, rigorous economic models, the dysfunction of American fiscal institutions, the psychological aspects of political rules, and Fukuyama's vetocracy as a case of anti-commons.Readers will gain many new insights from Individualism and Political Disorder, and it will prove invaluable for academics and students in an array of areas, such as economics, politics, public policy and public administration, social psychology, and law and economics.Trade Review'In these creative and imaginative essays, James M. Buchanan and Yong J. Yoon explore new analytical territory by explaining how democratic politics can generate economic disorder. While some of these themes are present throughout Buchanan's scholarly oeuvre, these essays break new analytical ground by examining the ability of democratic processes to promote destructive outcomes in the absence of appropriate constitutional restraints on democratic action. These articles and excerpts will repay careful study by all scholars interested in the relationship between democracy, liberty, and economic progress.' --Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Roger Congleton PART I INTRODUCTION Introduction: Political Disorder and Decay PART II ANALYSIS AND APPLICATION 1. Majoritarian Logic 2. Rationality as Prudence: Another Reason for Rules 3. The Efficacy of Arbitrary Rules (Buchanan and Yoon) 4. Variations on Tullock's Road Model 5. Symmetric Tragedies: Commons and Anti-commons 6. Majoritarian Management of the Commons 7. Universalism through common access: an alternative model of distributive politics 8. Majoritarian Exploitation of Fiscal Commons: General Taxes -Differential Transfers 9. All Voting is Strategic 10. Public Choice and the Extent of the Market 11. Choosing for Others: A Neglected Element in the Theory of Collective Action 12. The Cost of Collectivization, Per Se PART III: AMERICA’S FISCAL TRAGEDY 13. Institutional Sources of American Fiscal Tragedy Index

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Book SynopsisThe Research Handbook on Emissions Trading examines the origins, implementation challenges and international dimensions of emissions trading. It pursues an interdisciplinary approach drawing upon law, economics and, at times, political science, to present relevant research strands in a clear and multifaceted way. Its comprehensive mix of theoretical analysis and experiences from existing trading systems offers insights that can be applied around the world.The expert contributors bring together views from different disciplinary and geographic perspectives. This multifaceted examination of economic and legal origins, implementation problems and the emerging international aspect of emissions trading identifies key bodies of research for both upcoming and seasoned academics in the field and highlights future research opportunities. Its broad and accessible approach touches on climate law, environmental law and environmental governance. This Research Handbook will appeal strongly to academics and postgraduate students, as well as providing valuable insights for regulators, government officials and practitioners who are involved in emissions trading.Contributors include: H. Chen, D.H. Cole, C. de Perthuis, A.F. Gubina, F. Gullì, B. Hinterman, K. Holzer, C. Kettner, E. Kosolapova, A. Nentjes, K. Nield, M. Peeters, R. Pereira, K.S. Rogge, R. Trotignon, A. Tuerk, J. van ZebenTrade Review'For all its conceptual simplicity, emissions trading has proven a remarkably challenging policy instrument to implement in practice. With a growing number of jurisdictions around the world embracing carbon markets to achieve their climate targets, an improved understanding of instrument design and operation - including the complex spillover dynamics encountered in existing systems - has never been more critical. This book, ably edited by a leading scholar in the field, makes an important and timely contribution to the literature, bringing together experts from a wide variety of backgrounds to dissect the accumulated body of empirical evidence and expand the boundaries of our knowledge on emissions trading.' --Michael A. Mehling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'If trading of any kind of emission rights is to play a role in future environmental regulation, we had better learn sound lessons from past experience. Led by the formidable Dr Weishaar, this volume does exactly that. Readers will find exquisite analysis of the pros and cons of current trading efforts. A treasure trove of analysis.' --Geert van Calster, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium'This Research Handbook is a marvelous overview of all challenges and dimensions that could and do arise concerning emissions trading. The legal and economic dimensions of emission trading are critically discussed and attention is also paid to the way in which emission trading functions in various jurisdictions. This volume will therefore be of great interest and help to anyone interested in obtaining more insights into the specificities of this fascinating policy instrument.' --Michael Faure, Maastricht University, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Stefan E. Weishaar PART I ECONOMIC AND LEGAL ORIGINS 2. Origins of Emissions Trading in Theory and Early Practice Daniel H. Cole 3. Emission Targets and Variants of Emissions Trading Andries Nentjes 4. Analyses of Allowance Transactions - Firm Behaviour in the First Trading Phase and Learnings from the Data Claudia Kettner PART II IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS 5. Emissions Trading and Market Manipulation Beat Hintermann 6. Enforcement of Emissions Trading - Sanction Regimes of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading in the EU and China Marjan Peeters and Huizhen Chen 7. Windfall Profits in the EU ETS Power Sector Francesco Gullì 8. Reviewing the Evidence on the Innovation Impact of the EU Emission Trading System Karoline S. Rogge 9. Financial Crimes in the European Carbon Markets Katherine Nield and Ricardo Pereira 10. Implementation Challenges for Emission Trading Schemes: The Role of Litigation Josephine van Zeben 11. Emissions Trading Systems and International Liability of Single Major Emissions Sources Elena Kosolapova 12. Allowance “Surplus” and Governance Implications Christian de Perthuis and Raphael Trotignon PART III INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 13. Linking Emission Trading Schemes: Concepts, Experiences and Outlook Andreas Tuerk and Andrej F. Gubina 14. Emissions Trading and WTO Law Kateryna Holzer Index

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Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from across the globe, this timely book astutely untangles the climate-food web and critically explores the nexus between climate change, agriculture and law, upon which food security and climate resilient development depends. Focusing through the lens of various domestic and international legal systems, this book addresses conceptual notions such as 'systems thinking' and climate change governance, as well as practical matters such as payments for ecosystem services and government subsidies for biofuels. Concerning itself with the vulnerability and resilience of both people and agro-ecosystems, it shows how climate action can yield high returns for agriculture as the primary source of economic activity for poor populations. Far reaching, this book also explores under-researched areas, including the linkages between invasive species law, climate change and agricultural law and the underlying dynamics of agroecosystem vulnerability. Assessing the strengths and weaknesses in existing agricultural laws and policies, it assesses new and innovative tools for addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation in the agricultural sector, before laying out a future research agenda. Scholars in the fields of climate change law, land use and agricultural law will find this key publication essential reading, as will practitioners desiring a deeper understanding of the agriculture and climate change nexus.Contributors include: R.W. Adler, M.J. Angelo, R.M. Bratspies, A. Cosby, L.H. Gunderson, C. Häberli, K.H. Hirokawa, A. Kennedy, R. Kibugi, E. Le Gal, P. Martin, M. Nowlin, A. Odoemene, J.P. Pietrafesa , P.A. Pietrafesa, J.B. Ruhl, S. Sauer, E. Spiegel, J. VerschuurenTrade Review'This Research Handbook brings together a range of eminent scholars from across disciplines and across the globe to provide an insightful contribution to the ongoing debate on the complex interaction between climate and agriculture. In particular, while there is full recognition of the inherent difficulties in developing adaptation and mitigation strategies, there is also a most welcome willingness to make concrete suggestions as to the way forward.' --(Michael N. Cardwell, University of Leeds, UK)Table of ContentsContents: 1. Untangling the climate-food web: achieving food security and agricultural climate-resilience Mary Jane Angelo 2. Climate change and agriculture under the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change and related documents Jonathan Verschuuren 3. Resilience and transformation of agro-ecosystems in a changing climate Lance H. Gunderson 4. Climate change, complexity, agriculture and challenged governance Paul Martin 5. Climate change and water law in agriculture Robert W. Adler 6. Climate change and invasive species law in agriculture: a southern hemisphere view of key legal and institutional issues in Australia Elodie Le Gal 7. Genetically modified food crops in an era of climate change: an answer in search of a problem Rebecca M. Bratspies 8. Adapting agriculture through land use controls Keith H. Hirokawa 9. Much ado about methane: intensive animal agriculture and greenhouse gas emissions Michelle Nowlin and Emily Spiegel 10. Adaptation of agricultural trade and investment rules to climate change Christian Häberli 11. Agriculture and payments for ecosystem services in the era of climate change J.B. Ruhl 12. Climate change and agrofuels: Brazilian ethanol and the Cerrado biome Sérgio Sauer, José Paulo Pietrafesa and Pedro Araujo Pietrafesa 13. Adaptation to climate change in smallholder agriculture in Kenya: the role of law Robert Kibugi 14. Agricultural land use conflict in the context of climate change: an Australian case study Amanda Kennedy and Amy Cosby 15. Climate change and land grabbing Akachi Odoemene Index

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Book SynopsisWhy are some countries more willing and able than others to engage in climate change mitigation? The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change compiles insights from experts in comparative politics and international relations to describe and explain climate policy trajectories of seven key actors: Brazil, China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, and the United States.Using a common conceptual framework, the authors find that the scope for a more ambitious climate policy is limited by stable material parameters such as energy resource endowments and accumulated infrastructural investments. Within that scope, governmental supply of mitigation policies seems to meet (or even exceed) societal demand for climate policy change in most cases. Given the important roles that the seven actors play in addressing global climate change, the book's in-depth comparative analysis will help readers assess the prospects for a new and more effective international climate agreement for 2020 and beyond.Students and scholars of environmental politics and the climate and environmental policy fields will find the new conceptual framework and empirical case studies of great value. The book's up-to-date information and analyses will also interest energy sector practitioners and climate and energy policymakers.Contributors: S. Aamodt, S. Andresen, G. Bang, M. Iguchi, A. Korppoo, A. Luta, T. Rauken, J.B. Skjærseth, I. Stensdal, S. Tankha, A. UnderdalTrade Review'Since the 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, analysts have focused on what national policy is capable of delivering by way of emission reductions, as that level has de facto become the international regime. This carefully constructed book is immensely useful in the way that it describes and explains the policy trajectories of seven of the world's largest emitters. It is highly recommended both as a state-of-the-art summary of the policy status quo in those countries and a launch pad for new analytical research on the sources of future policy innovation.' --Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Guri Bang, Arild Underdal and Steinar Andresen 2. To be – or not to be – A Low-carbon Economy: A Decade of Climate Politics in Brazil Solveig Aamodt 3. China: Every Day is a Winding Road Iselin Stensdal 4. EU Climate and Energy Policy: Demanded or Supplied? Jon Birger Skjærseth 5. Climate Politics, Emissions Scenarios and Negotiation Stances in India Sunil Tankha and Trude Rauken 6. Japan’s Climate Policy: Post-Fukushima and Beyond Masahiko Iguchi, Alexandru Luta and Steinar Andresen 7. Russia’s Climate Policy Anna Korppoo 8. The United States: Obama’s Push for Climate Policy Change Guri Bang 9. Comparative Analysis and Conclusions Guri Bang, Arild Underdal and Steinar Andresen Index

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Book SynopsisThe concept of international climate finance channelled from developed to developing countries through public interventions for mitigation and adaptation has been developed over the last decade, but its roots date back to the early 1990s. Despite the high relevance of the topic in the international climate negotiations, illustrated by the (missed) target to mobilise USD 100 billion by 2020, there is no book that provides an overview accessible to academics and practitioners alike.This comprehensive Handbook of International Climate Finance closes this gap, with contributions from expert researchers and practitioners involved in key climate finance institutions. Chapters assess past approaches to international climate finance, discuss the effectiveness of different channels for climate finance, debate challenges encountered and elucidate national strategies of donors and recipients. An important section elaborates perspectives for sources of international climate finance from multilateral channels, the private sector, and blending of finance including through international carbon markets. The Handbook further elaborates perspectives on ownership and accountability and the role of the private sector. Mapping out pathways for the future, it concludes by providing a vision for international climate finance after 2025.This forward-thinking Handbook will be a critical resource for scholars and students with an interest in climate change and related policies and environmental politics, policy, and economics more broadly. It provides key input for international climate negotiators, climate activists and international climate finance institutions.Trade Review‘Strategic investments are key for successful long term mitigation and adaptation policy. International climate finance is crucial to mobilize such investments in developing countries. The Handbook of International Climate Finance clearly lays out what is known about the impact of transfers from North to South and what needs to be improved. Every climate policy practitioner should have read it!’ -- Michael Grubb, University College London, UK‘As facilitator of the negotiations on the post-2025 new collective quantified goal for climate finance I welcome the Handbook of International Climate Finance. It is an excellent input into the negotiations as it gives a clear overview of the history, current state, and possible future of international climate finance.’ -- Kishan Kumarsingh, Co-chair of the ad hoc work programme on the new collective quantified goal on climate finance, UNFCCC‘Written by leading scholars and practitioners in the field, the Handbook of International Climate Finance is an extremely useful resource for researchers and negotiators from the developing countries who are increasingly getting involved in sourcing and using climate finance to tackle both climate change as well as development.’ -- Saleemul Huq, Director, International Centre for Climate Change and Development, BangladeshTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Handbook of International Climate Finance: is climate finance a meteoric fashion or a stable pillar of the global response to anthropogenic climate change? 1 Axel Michaelowa and Anne-Kathrin Sacherer PART I BASIC CONCEPTS UNDERLYING CLIMATE FINANCE 1. Same but different? Understanding divergent definitions of and views on climate finance 16 Igor Shishlov and Philipp Censkowsky 2. Climate finance effectiveness: matching in-depth analysis with stakeholder dialogues 40 Angela D. Falconer and Barbara K. Buchner 3. Climate finance as development aid 62 Katharina Michaelowa and Chandreyee Namhata PART II LESSONS FROM INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FINANCE TO DATE 4. Financial aspects of international legal regulations of climate change: between two concepts : the common concern of humankind and the common but differentiated responsibilities 84 Izabela Ratajczak-Juszko and Maciej Nyka 5. Lessons from Fast-Start Finance 104 Smita Nakhooda and Charlene Watson 6. The Green Climate Fund: history, status and legitimacy 135 Rishi Basak and Sylvia Karlsson-Vinkhuyzen 7. National climate funds 167 Luis Gomez-Echeverri 8. 20 years of adaptation finance: taking stock of origins, destinations and determinants of allocation 187 Sam Barrett 9. Experiences from the German International Climate Initiative (IKI) 213 Sonja Butzengeiger-Geyer, Johanna Christensen, Matthias Poralla, Aayushi Singh and Joachim Schnurr 10. The Rwandan approach to maximising benefits from international climate finance 242 Faustin Munyazikwiye and Axel Michaelowa PART III CONTRIBUTIONS TO AND ALLOCATION OF INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FINANCE 11. Aligning finance flows with the Paris Agreement: the role of multilateral development banks 256 Anja Carolin Gebel, Aki Kachi and Lauren Sidner 12. Financing forest conservation and restoration through climate policy instruments : lessons from the CDM and REDD+ 293 Anne-Kathrin Sacherer, Stephan Hoch, Sandra Dalfiume and Ruth Kassaye 13. Allocating climate finance: a contributor’s view 318 Stefan Schwager 14. Enhanced Direct Access: the first decade 333 Benito Müller and Rishikesh Ram Bhandary 15. The role of carbon market mechanisms in climate finance 352 Aglaja Espelage, Hanna-Mari Ahonen and Axel Michaelowa PART IV THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FINANCE 16. The future of climate finance: balancing ownership and accountability 380 Joe Thwaites, Gaia Larsen and Athena Ronquillo-Ballesteros 17. The future of climate finance: multinational company participation under rising peer pressure 403 Martin Stadelmann and Dominique Gangneux 18. Mobilising climate finance for adaptation through the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism 420 Gareth Phillips 19. How to ensure that investment in new climate solutions is sufficient to avert catastrophic climate change 445 Yannick Glemarec PART V OUTLOOK 20. A vision for international climate finance after 2025 476 Axel Michaelowa Index 487

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Book Synopsis'An extremely timely book. The Paris Climate Agreement establishes a global goal on adaptation of enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change. The book addresses the key question of how such a goal could be achieved by arguing that adaptation and resilience cannot be separated from ongoing and dynamic development processes. Its central theme is that more climate-resilient development pathways will only occur if climate risks are embedded into wider development, spatial planning, investment and poverty alleviation strategies. Although written from an economics perspective it draws on a wide range of literatures and experiences and is eminently readable. Indeed, it should be read not only by students of development and planning but also by practitioners, in both the public and private sectors, whose development choices will affect future vulnerabilities to climate change.'- Dame Judith Rees, London School of Economics, UK'The impacts of climate change can appear remote when compared with such immediate problems as poverty, disease and economic stagnation. Yet, climate change can directly affect the achievement of many development objectives. How development occurs also has implications for the vulnerability of societies to the impacts of climate change. In providing a ''deep dive'' into the nexus between adaptation to climate change and economic development this volume makes a valuable contribution to the literature. Furthermore, it also provides timely guidance to policy practitioners on how to make climate resilient development a reality.'- Shardul Agrawala, OECD, FranceSome climate change is now inevitable and strategies to adapt to these changes are quickly developing. The question is particularly paramount for low-income countries, which are likely to be most affected. This timely and unique book takes an integrated look at the twin challenges of climate change and development. The book treats adaptation to climate change as an issue of climate-resilient development, rather than as a bespoke set of activities (flood defences, drought plans, and so on), combining climate and development challenges into a single strategy. It asks how the standard approaches to development need to change, and what socio-economic trends and urbanisation mean for the vulnerability of developing countries to climate risks. Combining conceptual thinking with practical policy prescriptions and experience the contributors argue that, to address these questions, climate risk has to be embedded fully into wider development strategies. This point of view is gaining in prominence in the development community; however, the contributors assert that a comprehensive analytical treatment is so far lacking.This unique and innovative book will appeal to the development community, such as think tanks and aid agencies, as well as academics and those involved in climate change policy and development.Contributors include: M. Bangalore, M. Bezabih, L. Bonzanigo, D. Castells-Quintana, H. Costa, M. del Pilar Lopez-Uribe, S. Dietz, C. Dixon, S. Fankhauser, M. Fay, J. Finnegan, G. Floater, S. Hallegatte, A. Hunt, T. Kane, S. Lovo, T. McDermott, C. McLaren, U. Narloch, J. Rozenberg, S. Surminski, D. Treguer, A. Vogt-Schilb, G. Singer, M. Waldinger, J. Ward, P. WatkissTrade Review'This book brings much-needed nuance and evidence to the complicated relationship between vulnerability and climate change - A must-read for all interested in climate and development.' --Richard S.J. Tol, University of Sussex, UK and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands'The key contribution of this book is to highlight the fact that adaptation to climate change -- or climate-resilient development -- must be seen in a dynamic context over a long time period. ''Transformational'' adaptation recognises that countries are undergoing rapid socio-economic transformation independently of climate change. It takes a long-term perspective on investment decisions, recognising the many uncertainties associated with the impact of climate change. The book challenges conventional ways of thinking and also provides many practical examples of how to do things better.' --Simon Maxwell CBE, Executive Chair, Climate and Development Knowledge Network'Fankhauser and McDermott show how to construct more climate resilient economies, the politics which lie behind choices made, and design of pathways to transformation if people are to manage and prosper in the difficult years ahead.' --Camilla Toulmin, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), UKTable of ContentsContents 1. Climate-Resilient Development: An Introduction S. Fankhauser and T. McDermott PART I CONCEPTS 2. The Role of Climate in Development D. Castells-Quintana, M. del Pillar Lopez-Uribe and T.K.J. McDermott 3. Poverty and Climate Change S. Hallegatte, M. Bangalore, L. Bonzanigo, M. Fay, T. Kane, U. Narloch 4. Coping with Climate Risk: The Options D. Castells-Quintana, M. del Pilar Lopez-Uribe and T.K.J. McDermott 5. Locking in Climate Vulnerability: Where are the Investment Hotspots? S. Dietz, C. Dixon and J. Ward 6. Assessing Climate-resilient Development Options P. Watkiss and A. Hunt PART II ACTIONS 7. Adaptation Experience and Prioritisation P. Watkiss 8. Climate-resilient Cities H. Costa, G. Floater and J. Finnegan 9. Climate-resilient Development in Agrarian Economies M. Bezabih, S. Lovo, G. Singer and C. McLaren 10. Insurance Instruments for Climate-resilient Development S. Surminski 11. Migration and Climate-resilient Development M. Waldinger Index

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Book SynopsisBased on an innovative theoretical framework combining theories of EU policy making, negotiation and implementation, this comprehensive book examines EU climate and energy policies from the early 1990s until the adoption of new policies for 2030. The authors investigate how the linking of climate and energy concerns in policy packages has facilitated agreement among EU leaders with very different policy ambitions. Employing in-depth studies from a diverse range of energy-economic countries, the book also explores the impact of the implementation of policies on the climate and energy policy framework and the Energy Union initiative.Social scientists and researchers in EU climate and energy policies will find the new empirical data and theoretical approach useful to their work. Students of the social sciences and politics will also benefit from the accessible overview of EU climate and energy policy development. This book will also be of interest to private and public decision-makers looking for explanations for the causes and consequences of EU climate and energy policy development.Trade Review'This book not only provides an in-depth analysis of the recent development of EU climate and energy policy from the climate and energy package for 2020 to the climate and energy policy framework for 2030, it is also noteworthy for its skilful and innovative combination of EU and member state level analysis across a full policy cycle covering policy initiation, decision-making, implementation and policy reform. Recommended reading!' --Sebastian Oberthuer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium'In Europe, climate and energy policies have become inextricably intertwined in the minds of politicians, businesses and civil society organisations. This ambitious book offers a 360 degree analysis of the interlinking strategies designed and employed by policy makers at EU level and in four critically important member states. In doing so it offers a richly textured answer to a puzzle that has always perplexed analysts: how and why do states manage to adopt policies that are significantly at odds with the preferences of the least ambitious?' --Andrew Jordan, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, UK'This book is one that all scholars, students and citizens with any interest in EU environmental and energy politics will benefit from reading and re-reading.' --Local EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Analytical Framework 3. Evolution of EU Climate and Energy Policies 4. Initiating the Package for 2020 5. Deciding the Package for 2020 6. Implementation in Germany 7. Implementation in Poland 8. Implementation in the Netherlands 9. Implementation in Norway 10. Comparative Analysis and Consequences for EU 2030 11. Conclusions and the Road Ahead Index

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Book SynopsisThis is an extraordinary book that tackles the requirement, as laid down in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to save our climate for future generations. By approaching this requirement from various angles (international law, human rights, ethics, economics, etc.), Lawrence achieved a unique result: he succeeded in turning a vague aspirational norm into concrete actions that need to be taken by us today.'- Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg Sustainability Center and Tilburg Law School, The NetherlandsJustice for Future Generations breaks new ground by discussing what ethical obligations current generations have towards future generations in addressing the threat of climate change and how such obligations should be embodied in international law.Peter Lawrence uses an interdisciplinary approach, involving discourse theory, international relations theory, and philosophical concepts of ethics and justice to inform discussion of international law. Recent political science theories are used to show why the current global climate change treaties are so weak in addressing intergenerational justice concerns. The book draws on contemporary theories of justice to develop a number of principles used to critique the existing global climate change treaties. These principles are also used as a blueprint for suggestions on how to develop a much-needed global treaty on climate change. The approach is pragmatic in that the justice-ethics argument rests on widely shared values. Moreover, the book is informed by the author's extensive experience in the negotiation of global environmental treaties as an Australian diplomat.With its interdisciplinary approach and focus on intergenerational justice, this detailed study will be of particular interest to academics and policymakers in international environmental law and climate law, as well as to those in international law with an interest in ethics and justice issues.Contents: 1. Introduction: The Climate Change Problem and Solutions Part 1: Theory 2. The Basis of an Obligation Towards Future Generations in Justice and Ethics in the Context of Climate Change 3. Content of Justice-based Obligations Towards Future Generations in the Context of Climate Change Part II: International Law and Politics 4. Current International Law, Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change 5. International Human Rights Law, Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change 6. Climate Change Discources and Intergenerational Justice Part III: The Way Forward and Conclusion 7. The Way Forward - Incorporating Intergenerational Justice Principles into International Climate Law 8. Conclusion Bibliography IndexTrade Review‘This book is easy to read and follow, providing a solid foundation for understanding environmental law in an international law context. Justice for Future Generations: Climate Change an International Law is a must have for every law library's environmental law collection. I would also recommend this book to those who care deeply about the environment and sustainability issues for future generations.’ -- Sharon Wang, Canadian Law Library Review‘Human-induced climate change is the most fiendish legal and policy problem ever faced by humanity, and our very survival as a species hinges on whether we respond effectively to it. Those who will feel the most acute effects of climate change will be our future generations. In this groundbreaking work, Peter Lawrence sets out the case for addressing climate change today in order to safeguard the welfare of future generations. Lawrence explains that this is not just an imperative of morality, or of survival, but is in fact a mandate of justice. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical and jurisprudential thinking, Lawrence distils core principles of justice to animate our efforts to mitigate climate change. This is an immensely important work, that will have a significant influence on how societies and governments conceptualise and respond to the climate problem.’ -- Timothy Stephens, University of Sydney, Australia‘Peter Lawrence’s book is an original and intellectually stimulating publication which raises complex questions of intergenerational equity and climate change. Both issues have been discussed separately in several important works but this book brings them together with fascinating results. Unlike many purely philosophical approaches, this monograph offers practical solutions based on the conclusion of a global treaty. Lawrence suggests difficult but workable solutions, based on ethical, legal and economic considerations, such as how a treaty would reconcile the long-term interests of developed and developing countries. Effective international law rules addressing climate change are fundamental for both humanity and global ecology and as Lawrence argues in his important book ‘building agreement on what justice means in this context is an essential part of the task.’ -- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London, UK‘This is an extraordinary book that tackles the requirement, as laid down in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to save our climate for future generations. By approaching this requirement from various angles (international law, human rights, ethics, economics, etc.), Lawrence achieved a unique result: he succeeded in turning a vague aspirational norm into concrete actions that need to be taken by us today.’ -- Jonathan Verschuuren, Tilburg Sustainability Center and Tilburg Law School, the Netherlands‘Those interested in, or affected by environmental issues (and aren’t; we all?) should seek out this book. Researchers and policy makers in particular will be pleased, not to mention amazed, by the impressive bibliography of over twenty pages with its wealth of useful references.’ -- Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine‘Peter Lawrence’s Justice for Future Generations: Climate Change and International Law is a welcome and timely addition to the field.’ -- Carbon and Climate Law ReviewTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction: The Climate Change Problem and Solutions Part 1: Theory 2. The Basis of an Obligation Towards Future Generations in Justice and Ethics in the Context of Climate Change 3. Content of Justice-based Obligations Towards Future Generations in the Context of Climate Change Part II: International Law and Politics 4. Current International Law, Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change 5. International Human Rights Law, Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change 6. Climate Change Discources and Intergenerational Justice Part III: The Way Forward and Conclusion 7. The Way Forward – Incorporating Intergenerational Justice Principles into International Climate Law 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEdited by Shirley V. Scott and Charlotte Ku, this forward-looking book examines the scope and options for the United Nations Security Council to respond to climate insecurity. A cross-disciplinary team of experts addresses the range of political and legal considerations involved, including, the scope for adapting existing Council tools to address the challenge of climate change, the legality and legitimacy of doing so, the attitude of the P5 and EU, and Council action to date.Specific tools considered include establishing an international court or tribunal, targeted sanctions, peace missions, and ?legislation?. The starting assumption is that, given the futures projected by climate scientists and the responsibility of the Council for international peace and security, the Council will almost inevitably take its place as a key player in climate governance. Contributors therefore focus on the question of just how the Council will be able to most constructively contribute to effective climate governance and how it can begin to prepare for such a role.This book will be of great value to scholars investigating the governance of climate change. For activists and government officials the book provides high quality research that can be drawn upon to give background to debate, and inform future policy.Trade Review‘This book does much to shape understanding of the serious debates being had, and to be had, about global responses to climate change and is worthy of its place in any decent international law, international politics or climate change collection.’ -- Gary Wilson, Liverpool Law Review‘In sum, the book is a remarkable contribution to the debate about the UN Security Council’s potential engagement in global climate governance. It demonstrates the legal authority of the Council, the range of available policy options in the area of climate change, and related legitimacy, representativeness, and effectiveness challenges.’ -- Lisa M. Dellmuth, Carbon & Climate Law Review‘Shirley Scott and Charlotte Ku have assembled a team of longstanding UN observers, primarily from the fields of international law and international relations. The result is a useful and accessible portrait of the Security Council’s powers, tendencies and limitations.' -- Nature Climate ChangeTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Caitlin E. Werrell and Francesco Femia 1. The UN Security Council and Global Action on Climate Change Shirley V. Scott and Charlotte Ku 2. Climate Change as a ‘Threat to International Peace and Security’ Christopher K. Penny 3. Climate Change and Economic Measures: One Assumption and One Scenario Too Many? Francesco Sindico and Mallory Orme 4. The Creation of a Climate Change Court or Tribunal Shirley V. Scott, Patrick J. Keenan and Charlotte Ku 5. ‘Climate Migration’ and the Security Council Frédéric Mégret and Benoît Mayer 6. The United Nations Security Council’s Legislative and Enforcement Powers and Climate Change Alan Boyle, Jacques Hartmann, and Annalisa Savaresi 7. Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Peace Missions Paul F. Diehl 8. The EU’s Distinctive Approach to Climate Security Shahrazad Far and Richard Youngs 9. The UN Security Council’s Role in Developing a Responsibility to Respond to the Climate Change Challenge Charlotte Ku 10. Contested Legitimacy: The UN Security Council and Climate Change Martin Binder and Monika Heupel 11. The Attitude of the P5 Towards a Climate Change Role for the Council Shirley V. Scott 12. Conclusions: A Climate Change Role for the Council? Charlotte Ku and Shirley V. Scott Index

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Book Synopsis'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate change and responses to it. Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions - for example that ''green capitalism merits the term contradiction'' - but they are unfailingly thought-provoking, as all good scholarship should be. Highly recommended.'- Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UK 'Gough applies his trademark scholarship on universal human needs to the urgent question of social policy for the transition to a de-carbonised world. Based on a clear-eyed analysis of a wide swathe of the social science literature, and an eco-social political economy perspective, his approach is both pragmatic and deeply rooted in ethics and social justice. Highly recommended and suitable for teaching at all levels.'- Juliet B. Schor, Boston CollegeThis exceptional book considers how far catastrophic global warming can be averted in an economic system that is greedy for growth, without worsening deprivation and inequality. The satisfaction of human needs - as opposed to wants - is the only viable measure for negotiating trade-offs between climate change, capitalism and human wellbeing, now and in the future.The author critically examines the political economy of capitalism and offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for keeping the rise in global temperatures below two degrees, while also improving equity and social justice. A three-stage transition is proposed with useful practical policies. First, 'green growth': cut carbon emissions from production across the world. Second, 'recompose' patterns of consumption in the rich world, cutting high-energy luxuries in favour of low-energy routes to meeting basic needs. Third, because the first two are perilously insufficient, move towards an economy that flourishes without growth. Heat, Greed and Human Need is vital for researchers and students of the environment, public and social policy, economics, political theory and development studies. For those advocating political, social and environmental reform this book presents excellent practical eco-social policies to achieve both sustainable consumption and social justice.Trade Review'Ian Gough has done something no one else has yet achieved. He has brought together theoretical and empirical analysis in four different fields - economy, ecology, social policy and politics - to produce a coherent and convincing analysis of why climate change is occurring, its human and social consequences, and how it can be addressed. Gough attaches the rigour of social science to a deeply humanitarian ethical framework; he provides at once a profound understanding of how serious climate change is and a clear-eyed realism about the kind of political and economic programme which might be able to stop it. This is a very important book.' --Michael Jacobs, University College London, UK'Ian Gough has hit the sweet spot. He has shown us how it is possible to reduce inequality, satisfy human needs in culturally diverse ways and reduce the risks of dangerous climate change. What's more, his commanding and wide-ranging critical engagement with the theory and practice of managing the transition to a safer climate demonstrates that, far from being a diversion from this project, prioritising human needs and reinventing the welfare state are critical to its political success.' --Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia'A profoundly original intervention in the ongoing debate about climate change. A particularly interesting feature of the book is the way in which the author brings his expertise on welfare to bear on climate policy. Sustainable wellbeing is his guiding principle.; --Anthony Giddens, Member of the House of Lords and former Director of the LSE, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I CONCEPTS AND GLOBAL ISSUES 1. The Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. Human needs and sustainable wellbeing 3. Climate capitalism: emissions, inequality, green growth 4. Sustainable wellbeing, necessary emissions and fair burdens PART II TOWARDS ECO-SOCIAL POLICY IN THE RICH WORLD 5. From welfare states to climate mitigation states? 6. Decarbonising the economy and its social consequences 7. Decarbonising consumption: Needs, necessities and eco-social policies 8. Post-growth, redistribution and wellbeing 9. Conclusion: A three-stage transition References Index

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Book Synopsis'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate change and responses to it. Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions - for example that ''green capitalism merits the term contradiction'' - but they are unfailingly thought-provoking, as all good scholarship should be. Highly recommended.'- Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UK 'Gough applies his trademark scholarship on universal human needs to the urgent question of social policy for the transition to a de-carbonised world. Based on a clear-eyed analysis of a wide swathe of the social science literature, and an eco-social political economy perspective, his approach is both pragmatic and deeply rooted in ethics and social justice. Highly recommended and suitable for teaching at all levels.'- Juliet B. Schor, Boston CollegeThis exceptional book considers how far catastrophic global warming can be averted in an economic system that is greedy for growth, without worsening deprivation and inequality. The satisfaction of human needs - as opposed to wants - is the only viable measure for negotiating trade-offs between climate change, capitalism and human wellbeing, now and in the future.The author critically examines the political economy of capitalism and offers a long-term, interdisciplinary analysis of the prospects for keeping the rise in global temperatures below two degrees, while also improving equity and social justice. A three-stage transition is proposed with useful practical policies. First, 'green growth': cut carbon emissions from production across the world. Second, 'recompose' patterns of consumption in the rich world, cutting high-energy luxuries in favour of low-energy routes to meeting basic needs. Third, because the first two are perilously insufficient, move towards an economy that flourishes without growth. Heat, Greed and Human Need is vital for researchers and students of the environment, public and social policy, economics, political theory and development studies. For those advocating political, social and environmental reform this book presents excellent practical eco-social policies to achieve both sustainable consumption and social justice.Trade Review'Ian Gough has done something no one else has yet achieved. He has brought together theoretical and empirical analysis in four different fields - economy, ecology, social policy and politics - to produce a coherent and convincing analysis of why climate change is occurring, its human and social consequences, and how it can be addressed. Gough attaches the rigour of social science to a deeply humanitarian ethical framework; he provides at once a profound understanding of how serious climate change is and a clear-eyed realism about the kind of political and economic programme which might be able to stop it. This is a very important book.' --Michael Jacobs, University College London, UK'Ian Gough has hit the sweet spot. He has shown us how it is possible to reduce inequality, satisfy human needs in culturally diverse ways and reduce the risks of dangerous climate change. What's more, his commanding and wide-ranging critical engagement with the theory and practice of managing the transition to a safer climate demonstrates that, far from being a diversion from this project, prioritising human needs and reinventing the welfare state are critical to its political success.' --Robyn Eckersley, University of Melbourne, Australia'A profoundly original intervention in the ongoing debate about climate change. A particularly interesting feature of the book is the way in which the author brings his expertise on welfare to bear on climate policy. Sustainable wellbeing is his guiding principle.; --Anthony Giddens, Member of the House of Lords and former Director of the LSE, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction PART I CONCEPTS AND GLOBAL ISSUES 1. The Social Dimensions of Climate Change 2. Human needs and sustainable wellbeing 3. Climate capitalism: emissions, inequality, green growth 4. Sustainable wellbeing, necessary emissions and fair burdens PART II TOWARDS ECO-SOCIAL POLICY IN THE RICH WORLD 5. From welfare states to climate mitigation states? 6. Decarbonising the economy and its social consequences 7. Decarbonising consumption: Needs, necessities and eco-social policies 8. Post-growth, redistribution and wellbeing 9. Conclusion: A three-stage transition References Index

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Book SynopsisConcerns have arisen in recent decades about the impact of climate change on human mobility. Many people affected by climate change are forced or otherwise decide to migrate within or across international borders. Despite its clear importance, many questions remain open regarding the nature of the climate-migration nexus and its implications for laws and institutions. In the face of such uncertainty, this Research Handbook offers a comprehensive picture of laws and institutions relevant to climate migration and the multiple, often contradictory perspectives on the topic.Carefully edited chapters by leading scholars in the field provide a cross section of the various debates on what laws do, can do and should do in relation to the impacts of climate change on migration. A first part analyses the relations between climate change and migration. A second part explores how existing laws and institutions address the climate-migration nexus. In the final part, the chapters discuss possible ways forward.This timely Research Handbook provides much-needed insight into this complex issue for graduate and post-graduate students in climate change or migration law. It will also appeal to students and scholars in political science, international relations, environmental studies and migration studies, as well as policymakers and advocates.Contributors include: G. Appave, F. Biermann, I. Boas, M. Burkett, M. Byrne, C. Cournil, F. Crepeau, F. De Salles Cavedon-Capdeville, C. Farbotko, E. Ferris, F. Gemenne, K. Hansen, J. Hathaway, C. Hong, D. Ionesco, A.O. Jegede, S. Jodoin, S. Kagan, M. Leighton, S. Martin, B. Mayer, S. Mcinerney-Lankford, R. Mcleman, I. Millar, D. Mokhnacheva, C.T.M. Nicholson, E. Pires Ramos, A. Randall, A. Sironi, M. Traore Chazalnoel, C. Vlassopoulos, K. Wilson, K.M. WymanTrade Review'The breadth and depth this book brings to the legal issues surrounding climate-related displacement and migration are simply unmatched. The contributors explain the conceptual difficulties in identifying ''climate migrants,'' analyze the weaknesses in the current legal and institutional framework, identify gaps, and propose innovative solutions. The volume should be read by everyone interested in the topic, from those learning about it for the first time to policymakers trying to address one of the most difficult challenges climate change poses.' --John H. Knox, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and Wake Forest University, School of Law, US'While many publications on the climate change-migration nexus present a specific and oftentimes narrow approach to this topic, Mayer and Crépeau succeed in bringing together a wealth of different and sometimes contradicting perspectives. The Research Handbook is a comprehensive and thought-provoking collection of high-quality contributions and thus essential reading for everyone interested in the current state of art in a field that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century.' --Walter Kälin, University of Bern, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Benoît Mayer and François Crépeau, Part I Perspectives on the climate-migration nexus 2. Climate-related migration and its linkages to vulnerability, adaptation, and socio-economic inequality: evidence from recent examples Robert McLeman 3. ‘Climate-induced migration’: ways forward in the face of an intrinsically equivocal concept Calum T.M. Nicholson 4. Representation and misrepresentation of climate migrants Carol Farbotko Part II Existing laws and institutions 5. The inadequacy of international refugee law in response to environmental migration Christel Cournil 6. The relevance of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement for the climate change-migration nexus Elizabeth Ferris 7. Climate Change, Human Rights and Migration: A Legal Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities Siobhán McInerney-Lankford 8. Indigenous peoples, climate migration and international human rights law in Africa, with reflections on the relevance of the Kampala Convention Ademola Oluborode Jegede 9. International Climate Change Law Perspectives Maxine Burkett 10. Displacement Due to Responses to Climate Change: The Role of a Rights-Based Approach Sébastien Jodoin, Kathryn Hansen and Caylee Hong 11. Climate change, migration and the law of State responsibility Benoit Mayer 12. Regional responses to climate change and migration in Latin America Erika Pires Ramos and Fernanda de Salles Cavedon Capdeville 13. Organizational perspectives: International Organization for Migration’s role and perspectives on climate change, migration and the law Gervais Appave, Alice Sironi, Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, Dina Ionesco and Daria Mokhnacheva 14. Organizational Perspective from the International Labour Organization Sophia Kagan, Meredith Byrne and Michelle Leighton 15. Engaging the media on climate-linked migration Alex Randall Part III Ways forward? 16. Ethical Duties to Climate Migrants Katrina M. Wyman 17. When climate-induced migration meets loss and damage: a weakening agenda-setting process? Chloé Anne Vlassopoulos 18. The refugees of the Anthropocene François Gemenne 19. Towards a Global Governance System to Protect Climate Migrants: Taking Stock Frank Biermann and Ingrid Boas 20. Towards a Climate Change Displacement Facility Ilona Millar and Kylie Wilson 21. Towards an extension of complementary protection? Susan F. Martin 22. Afterword James C. Hathaway Index

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Book SynopsisOver time, it is expected that climate change will have a profound impact on human and natural systems, and thereby impede future economic growth and sustainable development. In this innovative and authoritative work, leading international experts discuss the challenges and opportunities for building an economy and society that is more resilient to climate change. Building a Climate Resilient Economy and Society fulfils a long-felt need, which assumed added importance following the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, for a comprehensive work on climate resilience. The chapters are organised into three thematic sections. The first part explores vulnerability, adaptation and resilience, whilst part two offers sectoral perspectives from agriculture, fisheries, marine ecosystems, cities and urban infrastructure, drought prone areas and renewable energy. In the final part, the authors examine incentives, institutions and policy, covering topics such as carbon pricing, REDD-plus, the role of institutions and communities, climate finance and policies. Combining a global focus with detailed case studies from a cross section of regions, countries and sectors, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource for researchers, scholars and students. Written in concise, non-technical language, it will also provide a thorough reference for those in civil society or government working on climate resilience and disaster risk reduction.Contributors include: I. Arakelyan, L. Barrage, I. Bateman, C. Carraro, W.W. L. Cheung, R. Costanza, P.M. Cury, M. Davide, S. Dekker, Y. Elhadi, C. Fezzi, I. Haque, A.R. Harwood, C. Hesse, M. Inoue, C. Johnson, A.A. Lovett, K. May, K.A. Miller, A.J. Mohammed, D. Moran, K. Mutafoglu, K.N. Ninan, V. Orindi, A. Panda, A. Patt, R. Pichs-Madruga, M. Rao, J.-P. Schweitzer, V. Shandas, U. Sharma, Y. Su, U.R. Sumaila, T. Tai, P. ten Brink, D. Timmons, C. Tisdell, A. van Diepen-Heyadat, J. Voelkel, R.T. Watson, J. Woollard, A. WrefordTrade Review‘Building a Climate Resilient Economy and Society is a worthy addition to the growing body of knowledge around how climate change is manifesting its effects across economies and societies, and efforts being made in response. It will appeal to professionals dealing with climate change policy and planning as a resource providing insights from case studies, and well explained technical material on a range of subjects close to the core of climate resilience.’ -- Bob Speirs, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management'This book is timely and identifies a range of options to adapt, reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to human-induced climate change for both terrestrial and marine systems. It addresses key sectors such as agriculture, fisheries, water quantity and quality, and coastal cities, and key issues such as terrestrial and marine biodiversity and Small Island States. It also addresses key issues associated with mitigation, including carbon pricing, economic implications of climate policies, financing at local levels, and REDD+. I would like to congratulate the editors and authors for bringing out this book which I am sure will receive wide attention.' --From the Foreword by Sir Robert T. Watson'The book provides an excellent overview of the importance, challenges and opportunities for building ecological resilience in dealing with climate change. The collection of articles is essential reading for both academics and policymakers working on the economics of climate change mitigation and adaptation.' --Andreas Kontoleon, University of Cambridge Department of Land Economy, UK'Despite the significant progress made when the Paris Agreement came into force in November 2016, greenhouse-gas emission mitigation will not proceed at a sufficient pace to preclude widespread climate change later in this century. Therefore, it is necessary to give more attention to the diverse means of adaptation to the climate change that will likely occur. K.N. Ninan and Makoto Inoue have assembled 17 essays that can inform scholars and policy makers alike as they come to grips with the eventual necessity to build climate resilient economies around the world.' --Robert N. Stavins, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Sir Robert T. Watson 1. Introduction K.N. Ninan and Makoto Inoue PART I VULNERABILITY, ADAPTATION AND RESILIENCE 2. The environmental impact of climate change adaptation on land use and water quality Carlo Fezzi, Amii R. Harwood, Andrew A. Lovett and Ian J. Bateman 3. Adaptive capacity contributing to improved agricultural productivity at the household level: empirical findings highlighting the importance of crop insurance Architesh Panda, Upasna Sharma, K.N.Ninan and Anthony Patt 4. Adapting to climate change and improving urban resilience: The role of nature and biodiversity protection in cities Konar Mutafoglu, Patrick ten Brink, Sabrina Dekker, Jamie Woollard and Jean-Pierre Schweitzer 5. Coproducing resilience through understanding vulnerability Vivek Shandas, Anandi van Diepen, Jackson Voelkel, Meenakshi Rao 6. Climate resilience and sustainable development: challenges and options for small island developing states Ramón Pichs-Madruga PART II CLIMATE RESILIENCE: SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES 7. Can agriculture be climate smart? Irina Arakelyan, Anita Wreford and Dominic Moran 8. Global warming and changes in marine ecosystem- economic consequences and adjustment issues Clem Tisdell 9. Climate change, marine ecosystems and global fisheries U. Rashid Sumaila, William W.L. Cheung, Philippe M. Cury and Travis Tai 10. Extreme drought and California's water economy: challenges and opportunities for building resilience Kathleen A. Miller 11. Building urban climate resilience in Vietnam and Bangladesh Craig Johnson, Iftekharul Haque, Yvonne Su and Kristy May 12. Renewable energy economics David Timmons PART III INCENTIVES, GOVERNANCE AND POLICY 13. Carbon pricing policy design and revenue management: economic models and policy practice Lint Barrage 14. REDD+: a global multilevel forest governance for building a climate resilient society Abrar Juhar Mohammed and Makoto Inoue 15. Democratising climate finance at local levels Victor Orindi, Yazan Elhadi and Ced Hesse 16. Do climate policies hurt the economy? lessons from the EU experience Carlo Carraro and Marinella Davide Claim the sky! Robert Costanza Index

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Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide a better understanding of how human cultures interact with climate change over an extended period of time. It is an analysis of the past and present, ranging from the first human migration to contemporary organizational management using an approach developed by Michel Foucault, defined as: the research, the practice, the experience, by which the subject operates on themselves the transformations necessary in order to have access to the truth. This book consists of two parts. The first part focuses on climate change and the substantial effects it had on the first human cultures. The second part explores the role of organizations and the development of new frameworks for action in more recent times of anthropogenic climate change.Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Part 1. The First Cultures in a Context of High Climate Instability 1 Chapter 1. Migration and Creativity: What Roles do They Play During Climate Change? 3 1.1. A necessary evil 3 1.1.1. The methodological challenge of a global history 4 1.1.2. Denial or a mandate from heaven 5 1.2. Cultures and climatic gradient 6 1.3. The conquest of ubiquity 12 1.4. Migration: capacity or necessity? 15 1.4.1. H. ergaster’s African exits 16 1.4.2. The African exits of anatomically modern humans 16 1.5. The oboes of the Swabian Jura 19 1.5.1. Climate change and the birth of the arts19 1.5.2. European cultures of the Upper Paleolithic and Heinrich events 22 1.6. Discussion 25 Chapter 2. Living with the Extreme 27 2.1. The example of super-flooding 27 2.2. In search of a new interpretative framework 29 2.3. Extreme measurements 30 2.3.1. Laughter: characterizing risk in climate change? 31 2.3.2. Ecstasy 32 2.3.3. Sacrifice 33 2.3.4. Communication 34 2.4. The first GLOF cultures 35 2.4.1. The “bathymetry” of myths and tales 35 2.4.2. Some examples of cultures associated with GLOFs 36 2.4.3. The severity of the floods and their cultural translation 39 2.4.4. The objectification of ice sheet GLOFs 40 2.5. The first cultural groups of anatomically modern humans and climate change 42 2.6. The problem of Apollo’s birth 45 2.7. The constitution of dragons, gods and humans in the myths of the flooding of hydraulic civilizations 47 2.8. Discussion 48 Chapter 3. The Great Historical Transitions of Climate Cultures 51 3.1. Historical human cultures, between fiction and knowledge of natural risks 51 3.2. Water, a historical problem, from Mesoamerica to Africa 54 3.2.1. Human cultures facing floods 55 3.2.2. “Dragon” myths 57 3.3. Human diversity and taiga shamanism 60 3.3.1. Contemporary shamanism, a look at Eros and Askêsis 61 3.3.2. Paleolithic cultures according to climate change 64 3.4. Spiritual corporalities of body paintings 69 3.5. Myths linked to the problem of water: first texts and first empires 72 3.5.1. The Superwise 74 3.5.2. Court shamanism 76 3.5.3. Rome and China 78 3.6. Discussion: the politicization of corporalities 80 Part 2. Contemporary Cultures and Climate Change 83 Chapter 4. Norms and Diversity in Climate Change 85 4.1. Climate change and normativity 85 4.1.1. Normativity and resilience 85 4.1.2. Norms and the environment 86 4.1.3. History of climate change policy 88 4.1.4. Mitigation and adaptation 90 4.2. Normativity and diversity 91 4.2.1. Diversity: a table of theoretical insights 91 4.2.2. Contingency 95 4.2.3. Otherness and truth 96 4.2.4. Governance and separation of powers. 98 4.2.5. Operational benefits 99 4.2.6. Discussion: what diversities for the climate? 101 4.3. The hard and soft law discussion 102 4.4. Normativity and climate migration 105 4.4.1. Climate motivations in migration 106 4.4.2. Competition of norms in soft and hard law 108 Chapter 5. Organization, Climate and Sustainable Development 111 5.1. Organizations and time horizons: Beck’s theory 111 5.1.1. Organization and globalization 111 5.1.2. Beck’s theory 112 5.2. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) 116 5.2.1. Soft law as a standardization of voluntary commitments 116 5.2.2. Voluntary engagement standards and “cosmopolitan climate risk communities” 119 5.2.3. Diversity and governance in climate change 121 5.3. Organization and decentralization in the energy transition: the example of Senegal 124 5.3.1. Africa, the green continent in the quest for sustainability 124 5.3.2. Senegal’s Renewable Energy Access Program 128 5.3.3. A need to articulate public decentralization and renewable energy 132 5.3.4. Quality, pricing and decentralization: an international political economy of energy access 133 Chapter 6. Climate and Religion in Protectionism 137 6.1. Climate change and protectionism 137 6.2. Mercantilism and religion 141 6.2.1. Papal bulls, an example of religious regionalism 143 6.2.2. Economic nationalism 144 6.2.3. Customs revenue 145 6.3. Parliamentary protectionism and religion: a comparison of France and the United States 147 6.3.1. France 149 6.3.2. The United States 151 6.4. Interfaith dialogue and fundamentalism 154 6.4.1. Traditionalism, fundamentalism and trade policy 155 6.4.2. The bridge or the wall 156 6.4.3. Discussion 158 Conclusion 159 Glossary 185 References 191 Index 201

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Book SynopsisToday, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments. Climate change, urban migration, social inclusion, health emergencies and financial and economic crises have elevated urbanization to newer heights of complexity that can only be tackled by integrating a multitude of scenarios, strategies and discourses, in order to create an urban future that is resilient and sustainable. Urban planners have come up with transition proposals and concepts that they hope will be able to respond to cities� challenges and ultimately allow them to adapt and make the transition into more robust urban areas. This book presents and discusses various urban transition strategies, action plans and programs that have been proposed or even conducted in different countries all over the world. Different countries require different strategies, but they all have the same goal in mind, each of them trying to address urban complexities and cope with the rapid pace at which the world is evolving.Table of ContentsIntroduction xiNicolas DOUAY and Michael MINJA Chapter 1. Rotterdam Resilience Strategy, Rotterdam 1Munir KHADER 1.1. Introduction 1 1.2. Context and background 1 1.3. Rotterdam Resilience Strategy – Ready for the 21st Century 3 1.3.1. Methodology 3 1.3.2. Rotterdam Resilience Strategy – Goals, stakeholders 5 1.3.3. Concrete resilient initiatives and programs 7 1.4. Conclusion 16 1.4. References 17 Chapter 2. Sustainable Florianópolis Action Plan, Santa Catarina 19Flavia HOLLERWEGER 2.1. Introduction 19 2.2. Context: Florianopolis’ background 20 2.3. The Sustainable Florianópolis Plan of Action 22 2.3.1. A comprehensive analysis of the city 22 2.3.2. Methodology 23 2.3.3. Goals and actions 24 2.4. Analysis – Discussion 29 2.5. Conclusion 31 2.6. References 32 Chapter 3. “Recife 500 Anos” Plan, Recife 33Maria Carolina ARRUDA 3.1. Introduction 33 3.2. Strategy, transition and innovation in a contrasting urban scenario 33 3.2.1. Recife: Brazil’s “capital of inequalities” 34 3.2.2. From an economic-oriented urbanism to a participatory strategic plan 36 3.3. The plan 37 3.3.1. A multi-institutional board 38 3.3.2. Research, public consultation and comparative analysis 39 3.3.3. Crossing strategies for integrated results 40 3.4. Critical analysis of the plan construction 43 3.5. Conclusion 45 3.6. References 46 Chapter 4. Greenest City 2020, Vancouver 47Hala RAHOUI 4.1. Introduction 47 4.2. Context 48 4.3. Greenest City 2020 Action Plan – targets and goals 52 4.3.1. GCAP goals 53 4.3.2. Implementation updates 63 4.4. Why is the GCAP an innovative urban strategy? 65 4.5. Criticisms 65 4.6. Conclusion 66 4.7. References 66 Chapter 5. The Grandeur Nature Plan, Eurométropole of Strasbourg 69Luc VOELKEL 5.1. Introduction 69 5.2. The Grandeur nature plan of the Eurométropole of Strasbourg 70 5.2.1. The stakeholders involved in the implementation of the plan 70 5.3. The content of the plan 73 5.4. The role of the Grandeur nature program 80 5.5. Conclusion 83 5.6. References 84 Chapter 6. The Car-free Livability Programme, Oslo 87Michael MINJA 6.1. Introduction 87 6.2. Background: the Car-free Livability Programme of Oslo 88 6.3. The role of the Car-free Livability Programme and specific developments brought by it 91 6.3.1. Advocating city life at the expense of parking space 91 6.3.2. Exploratory urban development projects 92 6.3.3. New pedestrian streets and pedestrian-friendly urban spaces 93 6.3.4. The city center planning model for the future streets 95 6.4. Car-free city centers are not utopian models anymore 96 6.5. Conclusion 99 6.6. References 100 Chapter 7. A Carbon-free City, Uppsala 103Bérénice JOURNET 7.1. Introduction 103 7.2. Context 104 7.3. The environmental program of Uppsala’s municipality 107 7.3.1. Ambitions 107 7.3.2. Mobility 108 7.3.3. Green spaces as social areas 112 7.3.4. Fossil fuel free 114 7.4. An ambitious and inclusive environmental program: between ambitions and social realities 116 7.5. Conclusion 118 7.6. References 119 Chapter 8. The Bicycle Strategy 2011–2025, Copenhagen 121Esraa ELESAWY 8.1. Introduction 121 8.2. Context 122 8.3. The bicycle city plan: making the city more livable by promoting cycling 124 8.3.1. SAFE from A to B 126 8.3.2. QUICK from A to B by 2025 127 8.3.3. COMFORT from A to B by 2025 129 8.3.4. CITY LIFE from A to B by 2025 131 8.4. BEST Copenhagen by 2025, BUT! 132 8.5. Conclusion 135 8.6. References 136 Chapter 9. Smart and Digital City Action Plan, Montreal 139Daniel Carl NUNOO 9.1. Introduction 139 9.2. Context of Montreal 140 9.3. Montreal’s smart and digital city action plan 142 9.3.1. Overview of strategy 142 9.3.2. Objectives and aims of the strategy 143 9.3.3. Implementation of the Montreal smart and digital city action plan 143 9.3.4. Results of the Montreal smart and digital city action plan in today’s context 147 9.4. Analysis – discussion 149 9.5. Conclusion 151 9.6. References 151 Chapter 10. A Smart City Masterplan, Kigali 153Haley BURNS 10.1. Introduction 153 10.2. Kigali background 154 10.3. Content of the plan 158 10.4. Analysis: Kigali for sale? 162 10.5. Conclusion 167 10.6. References 167 Chapter 11. The Array of Things, Chicago 171Leonardo RICAURTE 11.1. Introduction 171 11.2. The Array of Things, city of Chicago 172 11.3. The project’s strategy 172 11.3.1. Development and implementation of the project 172 11.3.2. Stakeholders 173 11.3.3. The technology behind 175 11.3.4. Further possibilities 177 11.4. A new way of perceiving the city 178 11.5. Conclusion 180 11.6. References 180 Chapter 12. 22@Barcelona Project, Barcelona 183Jassmin ALI 12.1. Introduction 183 12.2. 22@Barcelona project case study 183 12.3. Content of the plan 185 12.3.1. Stakeholders 185 12.3.2. Content of the plan 187 12.4. Analysis: A transformed Poblenou 189 12.5. Conclusion 192 12.6. References 193 List of Authors 195 Index 197

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Book SynopsisThis edited book consists of a collection of original articles written by leading industry and academic experts in the area of climate investing. The chapters introduce the reader to some of the latest research developments in the area of low-carbon investing and climate change solutions. Each chapter deals with new methods for estimating portfolio carbon footprints, constructing Paris-aligned equity and multi-asset portfolios and hedging climate risks. This title will be of great help to portfolio managers, asset owners and consultants, as well as academics and students who want to improve their knowledge and understanding of climate investing.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Fiona FRICK Chapter 1 The Financial Materiality of Climate Change: Evidence from a Global Survey 1 Amir AMEL-ZADEH 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Survey design and demographic data 4 1.2.1 Survey design 4 1.2.2 Demographic data 5 1.3 Survey results 8 1.3.1 Importance of climate change for investment decisions 9 1.3.2 Financial materiality of climate risk 12 1.3.3 Challenges for the disclosure and use of climate change information 19 1.4 Summary and conclusion 25 1.5 References 26 Chapter 2 Looking Forward with Historical Carbon Data 29 Steffen BIXBY, Alfie BRIXTON and Lukasz POMORSKI 2.1 Introduction 29 2.2 Data 32 2.3 How stale is historical carbon data? 33 2.4 Are historically brown firms getting greener? Might green firms become browner? 35 2.5 Nowcasting financed emissions using historical data 38 2.6 Conclusion 43 2.7 Appendix 44 2.7.1 Measures of portfolio greenhouse gas emissions 46 2.8 References 46 Chapter 3 Portfolio Construction with Climate Risk Measures 49 Théo LE GUENEDAL and Thierry RONCALLI 3.1 Introduction 49 3.2 Climate risk measures 51 3.2.1 Carbon footprint 51 3.2.2 Carbon transition pathway 58 3.2.3 Other metrics 62 3.3 Portfolio optimization 63 3.3.1 General framework 63 3.3.2 Portfolio decarbonization 64 3.3.3 Portfolio alignment 72 3.4 Conclusion 83 3.5 Appendices 84 3.5.1 Appendix 1: Scope 3 emissions 84 3.5.2 Appendix 2: Data 84 3.6 References 85 Chapter 4 Hedging Climate Risks: A Cross-asset Approach 87 Emmanuel JURCZENKO and Jérôme TeilETCHE 4.1 Introduction 87 4.2 Factor-mimicking portfolios methodology 89 4.2.1 General FMP approach 89 4.2.2 Errors-in-variable estimates 91 4.3 Hedging climate risk factors 94 4.3.1 Setup 94 4.3.2 Climate textual risk factors data 94 4.3.3 Base assets data 97 4.3.4 In-sample hedging results 99 4.3.5 Out-of-sample hedging results 102 4.4 Conclusion 104 4.5 Appendices 104 4.5.1 Appendix 1: General FMP portfolio optimization program 104 4.5.2 Appendix 2: Principal components instrumental variables FMP estimator 105 4.6 References 107 Chapter 5 A Framework for Achieving Net-Zero-Carbon Alpha Portfolios 109 Sebastian LANCETTI 5.1 Introduction 109 5.2 Carbon emission in the capital market 111 5.3 Passive approach to zero-carbon portfolios 111 5.4 Active approach to zero-carbon portfolios 114 5.4.1 Backward-looking data: carbon efficiency 115 5.4.2 Present-time data: “nowcasting” of environmental news 116 5.4.3 Forward-looking data: corporate climate alignment and adaptation plans 116 5.4.4 Case study: sustainable global equity strategy from PanAgora Asset Management 117 5.5 Carbon offsets 118 5.6 Conclusion 120 5.7 Appendix 121 5.8 References 121 Chapter 6 Active Paris-aligned Equity Investing 123 Katharina SCHWAIGER, Jim SNOW, Viktoria-Sophie WENDT and Andrew ANG 6.1 Introduction 123 6.2 Standards of Paris-aligned benchmarks 124 6.3 Climate-aware alpha drivers 126 6.3.1 Carbon resource efficiency 126 6.3.2 Green patents 127 6.3.3 Corporate target setting 127 6.4 Empirical results 128 6.4.1 Decarbonization pathway 129 6.4.2 Climate-aware alpha 129 6.4.3 Incorporating climate-aware alphas and decarbonization 131 6.4.4 Systematic active Paris-aligned strategies 133 6.5 Conclusion 137 6.6 Appendix: Paris-aligned equity strategy screens 137 6.7 References 139 Chapter 7 Green Alpha 141 Yin LUO 7.1 Introduction 141 7.2 Research methodology 141 7.2.1 Region classification 142 7.2.2 ESG-specific industry classification 143 7.2.3 Common style factors 144 7.2.4 Backtesting methodology 145 7.3 MSCI ESG rating 146 7.3.1 MSCI ESG data 146 7.3.2 Data coverage and average rating 147 7.3.3 An overview of MSCI ESG rating methodology 148 7.3.4 ESG pillars, themes and key issues 149 7.4 Characteristics of ESG – a factor perspective 151 7.4.1 The basics 151 7.4.2 Difference across sectors 153 7.4.3 Factor exposure 157 7.5 ESG as stock-selection factors 161 7.5.1 Aggregated ESG rating and the three pillars 161 7.5.2 Revenue, country and industry adjustment 162 7.5.3 Other adjustment 165 7.5.4 ESG momentum 165 7.5.5 Performance of aggregate ESG and three pillar scores 165 7.6 Environmental factors 170 7.6.1 Zooming into clean technology 170 7.6.2 Carbon emissions along the supply chain 174 7.7 ESG signals are additive to traditional stock-selection factors 179 7.7.1 Performance comparison with traditional stock-selection factors 180 7.7.2 Correlation with traditional factors 182 7.7.3 The diversification benefit offered by ESG factors 183 7.8 Conclusion 188 7.9 References 188 Chapter 8 Enhancing Environment-driven Portfolios with Traditional Factors 191 Guillaume COQUERET, Christian MORGENSTERN, James KELLY, Sascha STIERNEGRIP, Johannes FREY-SKÖTT and Björn ÖSTERBERG 8.1 Introduction 191 8.2 Framework 193 8.2.1 ESG overlays: the classic overlay 193 8.2.2 The factor embedding – the factor overlay 195 8.3 Empirical tests 197 8.3.1 Data and protocol 197 8.3.2 Baseline results 199 8.3.3 Statistical significance 202 8.3.4 Sector exposure 204 8.3.5 Transfer coefficients 205 8.4 Robustness checks 206 8.4.1 The sample size 206 8.4.2 A more passive benchmark 207 8.5 Conclusion 208 8.6 Appendix: Distribution of variables 209 8.7 References 210 Chapter 9 Enhancing the Accuracy of Firm Valuation with Multiples Using Carbon Emissions 213 Martin NERLINGER 9.1 Data 218 9.1.1 Carbon data 218 9.1.2 Financial data 219 9.2 Multiple construction methodology 219 9.2.1 Identifying and composing suitable peer group 220 9.2.2 Constructing and aggregating multiples 220 9.2.3 Determining firm valuation errors 222 9.3 Constructing new multiples using carbon data 222 9.4 Constructing peer groups using carbon data 228 9.5 Combining carbon emission multiples and carbon emission enhanced peer groups 233 9.6 Robustness 236 9.7 Recommendation for using carbon emissions for multiples and further research 239 9.8 References 240 Chapter 10 Risk Management Challenges in Sustainability Themed Portfolios: An Application to GHG-constrained Portfolios 245 Ryan M. BROWN, Harindra DE SILVA and David W. KRIDER 10.1 Introduction 245 10.2 Methodology 248 10.3 Data description 253 10.4 Results 258 10.5 Conclusion and implications 264 10.6 References 265 Chapter 11 Absolutely Sustainable Investing Across Asset Classes with Paris-aligned Benchmarks: An Application to AP2 267 Claes EKMAN, Andreas G.F. HOEPNER, Peter MANNERBJÖRK, Tomas MORSING and Gabija ZDANCEVICIUTE 11.1 Introduction 267 11.2 The climate benchmarks 269 11.2.1 Minimum benchmark requirements 270 11.2.2 Benchmark decarbonization and inflation adjustment 272 11.3 Absolutely sustainable investing 273 11.4 Case study: implementation of PAB at Andra AP-fonden 274 11.4.1 The Swedish pension system and the AP-funds 274 11.4.2 Development of sustainability integration and benchmarks at AP2 275 11.4.3 Implementing the EU Paris-aligned Benchmark at AP2 278 11.4.4 Specific aspects 285 11.4.5 Discussion 288 11.5 Conclusion 291 11.6 References 292 Chapter 12 Delegated Philanthropy in Mutual Fund Votes on Climate Change Externalities 295 Marie BRIÈRE, Sébastien POUGET, Martin SCHMALZ and Loredana URECHE-RANGAU 12.1 Introduction 295 12.2 Sample, data sources, variables and descriptive statistics 298 12.2.1 Mutual fund votes 298 12.2.2 Mutual fund characteristics 299 12.2.3 Mutual fund holdings 300 12.2.4 Descriptive statistics 300 12.3 Empirical analysis 302 12.3.1 Impact of the percentage of SRI on the support for climate resolutions 302 12.3.2 Resolutions on other corporate externalities 304 12.3.3 Drivers of support for climate change resolutions 307 12.3.4 Robustness 311 12.4 Conclusion 318 12.5 Appendix: Classification of shareholder resolutions 319 12.6 References 321 Chapter 13 Creditworthiness and Buildings’ Energy Efficiency in the Mortgage Market 325 Monica BILLIO, Michele COSTOLA, Loriana PELIZZON, Francesco PORTIOLI, Max RIEDEL and Daniele VERGARI 13.1 Introduction 325 13.2 Portfolio analysis 327 13.2.1 Energy efficiency 327 13.2.2 Descriptive statistics 330 13.3 Methodology 333 13.3.1 Logit regression 334 13.3.2 Cox proportional hazards model 335 13.4 Results 337 13.4.1 Estimates from the logit regression 337 13.4.2 Estimates from the Cox regression 339 13.4.3 Additional findings 343 13.5 Conclusion 343 13.6 Appendix 346 13.7 References 346 Chapter 14 The Thesis for Green Investing and Other ESG through the Looking Glass of China and the US 349 Brad CORNELL and Jason C. HSU 14.1 Introduction 349 14.2 Who and what does Green investing impact? 350 14.3 Who should set the Green investing agenda? 351 14.3.1 Should Green Initiatives be determined by elected civil servants or by rating services, investment funds and corporate CEOs? 351 14.3.2 The Milton Friedman take on who should drive ESG 351 14.3.3 American ESG in conflict with American democracy? 354 14.3.4 Who drives environmental protection policy and other ESG issues in China? 354 14.3.5 Good intentions but bad skills? 356 14.4 Earning a Green alpha?! 357 14.5 Market efficiency and ESG 361 14.6 Conclusion 362 14.7 References 363 List of Authors 365 Index 369

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Book SynopsisTwo perspectives have dominated the social science discourse on climate change adaptation. Firstly, an international narrative among UN and donor agencies of technical and financial support for planned climate change adaptation. Secondly, a significant volume of studies discuss how local communities can undertake their own autonomous adaptation. Effective and sustainable climate adaptation requires a third focus: understanding of the political processes within sub-national institutions that mediate between national and local practices. This book address the knowledge gap that currently exists about the role of district-level institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa in providing an enabling institutional environment for rural climate change adaptation. Key Features: · Analyses the disconnect between national and local policy and practice, and how to overcome it · Analysis of the political ecology of climate change adaptation in 10 diverse rural districts across Sub-Saharan Africa based on evidence from thorough field work · Explains how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of climate change adaptation programmes by engaging with decentralized local governments and principles of subsidiarity with regards to decision-making and control over financial resourcesTable of Contents1: Introduction 2: Implementing African National Climate Change Policies 3: Contemplating Climate Change at Local Government: On-the-ground Politics of Adaptation Delivery in Tanzania 4: Climate Change Adaptation and Decentralisation Politics: the Case of Local Governments in Rural Zambia 5: A White Elephant in a Changing Climate: a Territorial Approach to Climate Change Adaptation in Uganda 6: Creating Political Space for Climate Change Adaptation in Northern Ghana 7: Local Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Uganda 8: Political Ecology of Climate Change Management in Rural Uganda 9: Local Political Processes and the Management of the Awoja Watershed in Eastern Africa 10: Competing Interests over Natural Resources and Adaptation to Climate Change: the Case of Rice Cultivation in the Gweri Wetlands, Uganda 11: Social and Institutional Dynamics of Mobility as an Adaptation to Climate Change 12: Hoarders as Saviours: The Performance of Regional Grain Traders During and After Extreme Drought 13: Conclusion: Towards Subnational Climate Change Action Amidst Ambiguity and Contestation Over Power and Resources

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Book SynopsisThe focus of this book is future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services provided to society. These systems are either based on crop or livestock production, or on combinations of the two, with characteristics that differ between regions and between levels of management intensity. In turn, they also differ in their sensitivity to projected future changes in climate, and improvements to increase climate-resilience need to be tailored to the specific needs of each system. The book will bring together a series of chapters that provide scientific insights to possible implications of projected climate changes for different important types of crop and livestock systems, and a discussion of options for adaptive and mitigative management.Table of Contentsa: Introduction 1: Climate projections for 2050 2: Rainfed Intensive Crop Systems 3: Climate Sensitivity of Intensive Rice-Wheat Systems in Tropical Asia: Focus on the Indo-Gangetic Plains 4: Climate Change Challenges for Low Input Cropping and Grazing Systems – Australia 5: Diversity in Organic and Agroecological Farming Systems for Mitigation of Climate Change Impact, with Examples from Latin America 6: UK Fruit and Vegetable Production – Impacts of Climate Change and Opportunities for Adaptation 7: Intensive Livestock Systems for Dairy Cows 8: Climate Change and Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Temperate-Humid Regions of North and South America: Mitigation and Adaptation 9: Land Managed for Multiple Services 10: Adaptation of Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Asia 11: Enhancing Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems 12: Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems: Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World 13: The Role of Modelling in Adapting and Building the Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems 14: Agroforestry Solutions for Buffering Climate Variability and Adapting to Change 15: Channelling the Future? The Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Climate Adaptation 16: Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: New Approaches to Knowledge and Learning 17: What are the Factors that Dictate the Choice of Coping Strategies for Extreme Climate Events? The Case of Farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

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Book SynopsisClimate 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.Contributors include: C.A. Arnold, C. Bakker, M. Burkett, S. Donald, J.D. Echeverria, D.A. Farber, M. Faure, M.B. Gerrard, Q. He, R. Kundis Craig, S. Kuo, D.A. Kysar, R. Lyster, T. Parejo-Navajas, J. Peel, L. Rajamani, S. Shapiro, T. Stephens, L.G. Sun, K. Tracy, R.R.M. Verchick, J. VerschuurenTrade Review'As the global community struggles to reduce emissions to avoid the worst impacts of human induced climate change, climate disaster law is emerging as a new area of climate law that demands the attention of academics, policymakers and practicing lawyers alike. This book offers critical insights on the key climate issues we will have to contend with in years to come; the scale of which will largely depend on our collective effort to mitigate those issues today!' --Meinhard Doelle, Dalhousie University, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law 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 Capabilities 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 Sidney Shapiro and Katherine Tracy PART III ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND CLIMATE DISASTERS 9. Adaptive Law Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold 10. Planning for Climate Change Disaster Robert R. M. Verchick 11. Building and Construction Law 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 Disasters 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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Book Synopsis'In this important book, Benoît Mayer forces us to confront the implications of labelling in the climate migration context, and skillfully leverages this debate to shine a light on broader questions of the evolving role of global governance. His forthright analysis is both refreshing and appropriately challenging.'- James C. Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School'The discussion on the legal aspects of climate migration is often limited to the issue of the legal status. Yet the debate extends way further, and Mayer offers a much-needed broader look at the different dimensions of this concept, their legal implications and political caveats.'- François Gemenne, University of Liège, Belgium, and Sciences Po, FrancePolitical narratives on climate or environmental migration have been deployed in support of policy arguments relating to humanitarian assistance, migration, and climate change, or to promote national security or economic interests. But while climate change certainly has various impacts on human mobility, it does not appear to create distinct ''climate migrants'' or (in general) unprecedented migration scenarios. In this timely book, Benoit Mayer offers a unique interdisciplinary inquiry into the prospects of different political narratives on climate migration.The Concept of Climate Migration identifies the essential narratives around climate migration - the humanitarian narrative, the migration narrative and the climate change narrative - and assesses their prospects. It argues that although such arguments will influence global governance, they will not necessarily achieve what advocates hope for. Throughout the discussion, it appears that the weaknesses of the concept of "climate migration" are likely to be utilized in favour of repressive policies against migration or for the defence of industrial nations against perceived threats from the Third World.This discerning book explores new paradoxes in political advocacy and relates them to some of the greatest challenges to contemporary global governance. It will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students interested in climate migration, climate change and the law, or anyone involved in advocacy around these important issues.Trade Review'The book addresses the very timely and controversial concept of climate migrants. With great skill and thoroughness, Mayer discloses the ambivalence that lies in this concept: It may foster desirable developments as well as undesirable ones, depending on the way it is being used in political advocacy. The danger is that the concept of climate migrants could heighten the general anxiety about climate change and be detrimental to causes such as human rights protection and climate change responsibility. Yet, it could facilitate stronger international cooperation, international assistance and solidarity. (The concept of ''climate migrants'' carries with it an understanding of complex, global interdependence and arguments for states to not ignore the protection of vulnerable peoples outside their jurisdiction. Moreover, the concept might also contribute to a greater understanding of states' responsibility under international law to drastically reduce their excessive greenhouse gas emissions.)All in all, the book sheds light on one of the major challenges that today's system of global governance faces: the inertia to address collective issues in a cooperative and effective manner. The solution to this challenge may lie beyond the scope of this book, but it certainly is an important step in analysing the underlying legal and political dimensions and constrains to providing such solution.' --Christina Voigt, University of Oslo, Norway'Professor Mayer clearly and persuasively argues that . . . the effects of climate change on migration cannot and should not be addressed in isolation from broader concerns over migrant welfare and environmental protection. His insightful, interdisciplinary book requires us to rethink our assumptions about the relationship of climate change and migration, and provides a strong platform for future scholarship and policy.' --John H. Knox, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment and Wake Forest University'With stories about migration and climate change making daily headlines, Benoît Mayer's insightful analysis of the concept of ''climate migration'' is particularly timely. Mayer's careful and critical deconstruction of the concept offers a fresh scholarly perspective on how the challenges of migration and climate change are intertwined. Its clear guidance on how the elusive concept can be used in political advocacy should put the book on the reading list of anyone concerned with tackling two of the most important global challenges of this day and age in conjunction.' --Harro van Asselt, University of Eastern FinlandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Conceptualizing Climate Migration 2. The Humanitarian Narrative - Human Rights, Global Justice, and the Limits of Humanitarian Reason 3. The Migration Narrative - Protection Gaps, the Refugee Analogy, and the Rights of Migrants 4. The Responsibility Narrative - Anthropogenic Climate Change, Migration as Injury, and Interference in Place of Reparation 5. Pragmatic Narratives - Self-Interests, National Aspirations, and Global Complex Interdependence Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis topical and engaging Research Handbook illustrates the variety of research approaches in the field of climate change adaptation policy in order to provide a guide to its social and institutional complexity. A range of international expert contributors offer interdisciplinary explorations of climate change adaptation policy from policy sciences, legal, and practitioner perspectives. Using examples from a variety of sectors including water, health and land use, and multiple levels of governance and country contexts, from international to local, and developing to developed countries, the chapters examine a wealth of theoretical orientations towards climate change adaptation policy and their underpinnings. In doing so, this Research Handbook provides an understanding of the complexity of the institutions, decision-makers and assumptions that are involved in adaptation research as well as adaptation policy development and implementation. This Research Handbook will be an indispensable resource for both researchers and practitioners in climate change adaptation with an interest in the research methods and policies that support and advance it. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of environmental studies, public policy and politics will also find this book provides a valuable foundation for building a deeper knowledge of adaptation science and policy.Contributors include: A. Atteridge, J. Bergh, R. Biesbroek, K.J. Bowen, D. Burton, S.N. Chau, C. Clar, S. Connor, G. Cundill, A. Dertinger, K.L. Ebi, S. Fritzen, K. Grecksch, F. Groundstroem, B. Harvey, M. Howlett, D. Javeline, S. Juhola, A. Jurgilevich, R.J. Keenan, E.C.H. Keskitalo, J. Klein, J. Lawrence, E. Lisa, J. McDonald, I. Mukherjee, M. Mullan, J. Munck, L.O. Naess, J. Nalau, H. Nelson, I. Noble, T. O'Donnell, A. Oels, M. Parsons, Å. Persson, B.L. Preston, M. Purdon, M. Rahman, A. Räsänen, D. Russel, F. Schipper, T.F. Smith, C.A. Sova, R. Steurer, R. Swart, P. Thornton, M. Twena, A. Wellstead, J. WentaTrade Review'This thoughtful, timely and comprehensive perspective on climate change adaptation policy provides insights into adaptation as it transitions from theory and planning towards practical implementation. The book is comprehensive and essential reading for all researchers, practitioners, policy- and decision-makers wanting to understand why adaptation is the way it is - why action is sometimes delayed, ineffective or maladaptive, and what the barriers are to achieving successful outcomes.' --Jean Palutikof, Griffith University, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: Part I. Introduction: Understanding Adaptation in the Context of Social Theory E. C. H. Keskitalo and B. L. Preston 1. The evolving interactions between adaptation research, international policy, and development practice Ian Noble Part II. Theoretical Frameworks and Systems Relevant to Climate Change Adaptation Policy Research 2. Challenges Associated with Implementing Climate Adaptation Policy Michael Howlett, Ishani Mukherjee and Scott Fritzen 3. The role of law and legal systems in climate change adaptation policy Joseph Wenta and Jan McDonald 4. Moving from incremental to transformational change in climate adaptation policy? An institutionalist perspective Johan Munck af Rosenschöld and Jaap G. Rozema 5. Enabling conditions for the mainstreaming of adaptation policy and practice Duncan Russel 6. Unpacking the potential role of social learning in adaptation policy Georgina Cundill and Blane Harvey 7. The promise and limits of participation in adaptation governance: Moving beyond participation towards disruption Angela Oels 8. Research methodology for adaptation policy analysis: embracing the eclectic messy centre Mark Purdon and Philip Thornton Part III: Understanding Adaptation Policy Development and Implementation at Different Levels and Country Contexts 9. Adaptation policy at supranational level? Evidence from the European Union Robbert Biesbroek and Rob Swart 10. The emergence and institutionalisation of national adaptation strategies Alexandra Jurgilevich, Fanny Groundstroem, Johannes Klein, Aleksi Räsänen and Sirkku Juhola 11. Adaptation in advanced economies. Progress and challenges in OECD countries Michael Mullan and Andrea Dertinger 12. Adaptation policy and planning in developing countries Chase A. Sova and E. Lisa F. Schipper 13. Adaptation policy and planning in Pacific Small Island Developing States Meg Parsons and Johanna Nalau 14. From Adaptive Capacity to Policy Capacity Adaptation Assessments: Insights from the Policy Sciences Mehjabeen Rahman, Adam Wellstead and Michael Howlett 15. Climate change adaptation strategies at different levels of government Christoph Clar and Reinhard Steurer 16. The role of governance in sub-national adaptation policy implementation Johanna Nalau, Judy Lawrence and Donovan Burton 17. Local adaptation governance: Examining power relations Lars Otto Naess and Michelle Twena Part IV. Sectoral and Cross-Cutting Perspectives on Adaptation Policy 18. The role of finance for adaptation Åsa Persson and Aaron Atteridge 19. Water Resources Kevin Grecksch 20. Property rights and land use planning on the Australian coast Tayanah O'Donnell, Timothy F. Smith and Sarah Connor 21. Climate change adaptation in forest production systems in a globalizing economy Rodney J. Keenan, Harry Nelson, E. Carina H. Keskitalo and Johan Bergh 22. Adaptation of Ecosystems in the Anthropocene Debra Javeline and Sophia N. Chau 23. Adaptation in health systems Kristie L. Ebi, Kathryn J Bowen 24. Conclusions: Climate Change Adaptation Policy Research and its Role in Understanding Climate Change Keskitalo, E. C. H. and B. L. Preston Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing together understandings from science and business around the increasingly important concept of resilience, this book provides managers, academics and practitioners with important ideas that will help business prepare for the future. It provides much needed detail on the challenges that climate change poses for organisations and makes essential reading for anyone interested in sustainable business.'- Suzanne Benn, University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaClimate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors offer practical tools and decision-making criteria for evaluating adaptation needs, costs and benefits. Split into two parts, this book begins with an analysis of the subject on a global scale; it continues by translating the science surrounding it while presenting it in a manner suited to local decision-makers.Sustainability and climate adaptation scholars as well as managers will equally find this book to be an insightful read. Government officers and risk management professionals will also find the topics discussed beneficial to their work.Trade Review‘Geared toward organizational decision-makers and policymakers, The Climate Resilient Organization is clearly? ?written, nicely summarizes the literature and draws heavily on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? ?(IPCC) reports. It is a good starting point for those looking for an introduction to climate change and how it? ?might influence their business.' -- Jessica Gordon, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, US, Anthem EnvirosExperts Review‘The Climate Resilient Organization offers a treasure trove of valuable information, useful tables for long-term reference, and a range of incredibly interesting issues for discussion that must be taken seriously by academics and practitioners alike.’ -- Eric B. Kennedy, Science and Public Policy‘Drawing together understandings from science and business around the increasingly important concept of resilience, this book provides managers, academics and practitioners with important ideas that will help business prepare for the future. It provides much needed detail on the challenges that climate change poses for organisations and makes essential reading for anyone interested in sustainable business.’ -- Suzanne Benn, University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I The Changed Environment 1. Organizations and Global Environmental Change 2. The Threat of Climate Change 3: The International Climate Policy Landscape 4. Implications for National Policy on Climate Change PART II ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSES 5. Vulnerabilities and Impacts as Drivers for Change 6. Strategic Options for Adaptation 7. Responses to Extreme Environmental Changes 8. The Path Forward: New Frameworks for Business Strategy and Innovation References Index

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Book SynopsisWith a novel focus on the individual members of the G20, this innovative book explores the perspectives and behaviours of those within the global summit, unpacking what they are seeking to achieve, how they go about doing this, and the domestic impact of the G20.Providing insights from the summit, Hugo Dobson comprehensively analyses the G20’s development and practices from the perspectives of the nineteen member states and one inter-governmental organisation that have shaped it. Chapters examine members’ reactions to the upgrading of the G20 to a summit of leaders in 2008, its development thereafter into the premier forum for international economic cooperation, and the expansion of its agenda beyond macroeconomic issues to a range of global collective action problems. Looking at its future from a country-specific perspective, Dobson concludes that the G20 will continue to engage with stakeholders and evolve in terms of its membership, as seen in the decision at the 2023 Delhi summit to include the African Union, thereby providing a basis for future research on its members’ perspectives, positions and behaviours.This multidisciplinary book will be an invigorating read for students of international relations and politics, global governance, sustainable development, climate change and energy transitions, and security and terrorism. Its exclusive insights will also be of use to policymakers and third sector organisations who are stakeholders in the G20 process.Trade Review‘This book is a highly valuable and very welcome addition to the scholarly literature on, and public understanding of, the Group of Twenty, by offering the first detailed look at its individual members’ priorities, roles and effectiveness within the G20 process and summits. With its insightful treatment of climate change, the energy transition and security, this book is a most timely, badly needed look at the G20 members’ response, together at the highest level, to the most critical, even existential, challenges of our time.’ -- John Kirton, University of Toronto, Canada‘Hugo Dobson’s book on the G20 is indispensable reading for making sense of shifting patterns of world politics. Dobson’s long experience as a summit watcher is on display with considerable value. Without getting bogged down with the intricacies concerning either the normative or technical debates about its role, Dobson’s “unpacking” showcases why an understanding of the G20 is so essential for a world caught between aspirations to global governance and the constraints imposed by national sovereignty and a return to geopolitics.’ -- Andrew F. Cooper, University of Waterloo, Canada‘This is a fantastic contribution and a must-read book for anyone interested in multilateralism and global governance. Making substantive theoretical and empirical contributions to the G20 literature, Professor Dobson remains one of the most important voices in the field.’ -- Tristen Naylor, University of Cambridge, UK‘The definitive update on the evolution of the Group of Twenty (G20), this book identifies key global governance efforts to manage the contested world economy, climate change and sustainability, and global security. Cutting across the traditional boundaries of international politics and diplomacy, political economy, and area studies, and written in Hugo Dobson’s trademark style of clarity and depth, it makes for a must read for scholars, students, policymakers, and thought leaders alike.’ -- Gregory T. Chin, York University, Canada and Mayling Birney Global Scholar, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction 2 The G20 and its position within global governance 3 Managing the global economy 4 Sustainable development 5 Climate change and energy transitions 6 Security and terrorism 7 G20 summitry beyond global governance 8 Conclusions Appendix 1: G20 summits, 2008–2025 Appendix 2: Attendance at G20 summits, 2008–2022 References

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Book SynopsisIn this thoughtful and original book, social scientist Olivier Godard considers the ways in which arguments of justice cling to international efforts to address global climate change. Proposals made by governments, experts and NGOs as well as concepts and arguments born of moral and political philosophy are introduced and critically examined. Godard contributes to this important debate by showing why global climate justice is still controversial, despite it being a key issue of our times.Godard first points out the huge differences between the foundations of conflicting proposals, for instance between a cosmopolitan viewpoint and an international one. He then explores controversies over climate justice proposals and provides a rigorous criticism of those based on historical responsibility. Finally, he demonstrates how issues of justice are reconfigured by instrumental regimes of coordination, such as a global carbon market. Inspired by the French school of justification, this book shines an insightful light on the failure of climate change debates to develop a convincing standard moral and political theory.Including elements from systems theory, economics and law, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of moral and political philosophy, economics and social sciences, as well as experts working on climate negotiations and concerned stakeholders.Trade Review‘Godard knows the facts, has a very good overview of the philosophical literature on the subject and is perfectly informed about the political discussions of the last quarter of a century. His quest is not for a new justification of global climate justice, but for a way to bring us further than the many already existing conceptions have brought us hitherto.’ -- Norbert Campagna, Ethical Perspectives'Justice considerations lie at the heart of international discussions to deal with climate change. This timely book, by one of the best scholars and advisors on climate policy, provides a comprehensive, yet rigorously critical (with due emphasis on the peculiarities of the international sphere), account of existing demands on the matter, from ''intergenerational equity'' to ''equal rights for every human being'' to the ''historical responsibility of the North''. It ends with a new framework, drawn from justification theory, for articulating concrete compromises out of rival viewpoints. A must-read for climate policy makers, advisors, analysts and scholars.' -- Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné, HEC Montréal, Canada'For all its details, climate change is fundamentally a moral issue. Godard manages with elegance and sharp analysis to guide us through the big philosophical, economic and political questions.' -- Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden'How to propose a theory of climate justice that takes seriously the need for States to voluntarily agree on a common climate regime? How to apply Boltanski and Thévenot's approach to justification to this issue? These are two of the many issues addressed in this book. It is the very personal outcome of decades of in-depth work devoted to bridging ideas from international relations, political philosophy, environmental economics and first-hand observations of climate negotiations. Timely and insightful!' -- Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain, BelgiumTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Whither justice? 3. Justice and international coordination 4. Justice and climate change: data and proposals 5. The puzzle of intergenerational equity 6. Historical responsibility for climate change 7. The equitable sharing of a carbon budget 8. Climate justice in the light of justification theory 9. Beyond justice References Index

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Book SynopsisThe 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change marked a reset of global climate policy, but was jeopardised by the partisan nature of the debates. In this unique overview, Aynsley Kellow suggests that global policy on climate change should have started with the Paris Agreement, and that almost a quarter of a century has been wasted following the wrong path. Looking critically at the interplay between interests, science, and global norms, Negotiating Climate Change shows how the initial selection of the wrong `metapolicy' hindered the development of global climate policy. Examining key debates, and the problems which arose from them, Kellow exposes the failings of the Kyoto Process and the subsequent issues raised in the negotiations culminating in the Paris Agreement. Providing analysis of the failings of past decades as well as looking towards the future of climate policy, this book will be invaluable to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of global environmental politics, environmental governance and international relations, as well as for policy workers in agencies involved in climate policy.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Metapolicy and Global Climate Policy 2. Business Interests, Energy Competition, and Climate Change 3. Climate Science, Problem Definition and Agenda Setting 4. Norms in Climate Negotiations 5. Minilateralism and Forum Shopping: Negotiations and Multiple Arenas 6. Paris: The End – or a New Beginning? References Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the potential for alignment as well as conflicts between IP and climate change, Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology encourages a coherent and integrated approach to decision making. This groundbreaking book identifies and challenges the lack of intersection between intellectual property law and climate change law at national level. It argues that intellectual property confers private rights on the results of innovation and creativity, while climate change law and policy exists more in the public sphere without engagement with intellectual property, with no space for the conflict between this private power and public goal to be investigated in litigation. This thought-provoking book will be of great interest to scholars working in the fields of IP, climate change law, human rights, and planning and sustainable development, challenging the assumption that some problems are dealt with only through consideration of certain areas of the law. Proposing new processes for policy and law making in order to remove barriers between these fields, Intellectual Property, Climate Change and Technology will also be a valuable resource for members of parliament and policy makers. Trade Review'The relationship between technology protected as intellectual property and its uses to address global climate change is far from simple. In this book Professor Brown draws on her in-depth knowledge of intellectual property law and international climate change policy issues to unpack those complexities and present a detailed analysis of how the two areas could more productively interact. Researchers and policymakers will benefit from reading this thought provoking book.' --Susy Frankel, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand'Abbe Brown's professional background, spanning practice and academia, makes her exceptionally well placed to consider workable solutions to climate change challenges. Spanning IP, competition and human rights and bringing in new approaches to statutory interpretation, Brown seeks to break down barriers and encourage judges and policy makers to take new approaches to these pressing problems. Finding practical solutions is core to Professor Brown's intellectual enquiry and she does not disappoint, adding important insights as to how significant progress could be made.' --Charlotte Waelde, Coventry University, UK'At the core of this book is this question: What is law's role in the package of solutions to mitigate climate change? That package will involve the invention and deployment of new technologies. Intellectual property will play a crucial role: it is meant to create incentives for innovation but it can also create barriers to the use of new technologies. The book offers the reader a comprehensive view of the law - and specifically IP law - in building a pathway to a low-carbon future.' --Daniel Gervais, Vanderbilt University, USTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. National legislation and policy making 3. Conflict and alignment? Rationales and litigation 4. Conflict and realities: presenting case studies 5. Present approaches, opportunities and challenges 6. New judicial approaches 7. Above the radar: delivering integration 8. Investor State Dispute Settlement: crossing boundaries? 9. Closing Thoughts Index

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Book SynopsisThis thought-provoking Research Handbook offers a critical survey of the law and governance issues facing the world's oceans and coasts in this era of Anthropocentric climate change. It discusses the biophysical impacts that climate change is having upon our oceans and coasts, as well as the various ways that international, national and sub-national laws have sought to respond. With contributions from scientists and lawyers, this comprehensive Research Handbook provides cutting edge analysis of the marine governance responses to climate change and how this will need to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It reflects on the interaction of climate change with regional marine governance regimes and analyses the likely impacts on maritime and national security. Illustrating the up-to-date treatment of interactions between climate and oceans regimes, this incisive Research Handbook examines the possible adaptation options to address specific issues for our oceans and coasts.The Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts will be a key resource for students, scholars and practitioners of climate change, water law and environmental law and policy, while also being of benefit to researchers in the cross-cutting fields of human rights and disaster law.Trade Review'Although the physical interconnections between the climate system and the ocean are critical to both, the legal implications of these interconnections are only beginning to be explored. This insightful and comprehensive Research Handbook brings together an outstanding group of scholars and will be an essential reference for anyone interested in learning more about the relationship of climate change and ocean law.' -- Daniel Bodansky, Arizona State University, US'This Research Handbook takes a topic that many have addressed in pieces and offers a more comprehensive vision of how it all works. The Handbook's Asia-Pacific leanings take readers through topics rarely explored in such volumes, including regional focus chapters on the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, and the Antarctic treaty regime. One of the Handbook's key values is its insights, from a variety of perspectives, into what climate change really means for the ocean's living resources - and the humans around the world who depend upon marine fisheries. As a thought-provoking bonus, the Postscript on the COVID-19 pandemic will likely set the terms for such discussions for years to come.' -- Robin Kundis Craig, University of Utah, US'The ocean is undergoing a number of rapid and profound physical changes as a result of human interference with the Earth's carbon cycle. The law of the sea, and the broader body of national and international law applicable to coastal and marine areas, is struggling to keep pace with the extent and speed of this change. This Research Handbook addresses all of the key legal dimensions of this challenge, from sea level rise to fisheries management, and will be of enormous value to scholars, practitioners and students as they navigate the increasingly uncertain waters ahead.' -- Tim Stephens, University of Sydney, Australia'This exceptional book offers a timely, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary analysis of cutting-edge issues in ocean and coastal governance at the intersection of climate change. Professors McDonald, McGee, and Barnes have assembled an unparalleled cast of expert contributing authors from around the world to explore a wide range of topics at the forefront of the global response to climate change.' -- Randall S. Abate, Monmouth University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I FRAMING THE ISSUES: CLIMATE CHANGE AND OUR OCEANS AND COASTS 1 Oceans and coasts in the era of Anthropogenic climate change 2 Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee and Richard Barnes 2 The impact of climate change on oceans: physical, chemical and biological responses 27 Alistair J Hobday and Richard J Matear PART II INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, OCEANS AND COASTS 3 Climate change, the Anthropocene and ocean law: mapping the issues 49 David Freestone and Millicent McCreath 4 Sea-level rise and the law of the sea 81 Moritaka Hayashi 5 Adapting UNCLOS dispute settlement to address climate change 94 Natalie Klein 6 Climate change and high seas fisheries 114 Yoshinobu Takei 7 Climate change and the International Maritime Organization 134 Sophia Kopela 8 Climate change-related displacement of coastal and island peoples: human rights implications 152 Amy Maguire 9 Climate change, disaster law, and extreme ocean and coastal events 174 Anastasia Telesetsky 10 Oceans, climate change and non-state actors 193 Irini Papanicolopulu and Armando Rocha PART III REGIONAL AND SECTORAL GOVERNANCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, OCEANS AND COASTS 11 Handling climate change for the East and South China Seas 210 Keyuan Zou and Lei Zhang 12 The Southern Ocean and changing environmental conditions: Antarctic Treaty System 224 Julia Jabour and Marcus Haward 13 Climate change and the Arctic: adapting to threats and opportunities in Arctic marine waters 239 Elise Johansen and Tore Henriksen 14 International law and institutional responses to climate change and fisheries management in the Indian Ocean 259 Erika Techera 15 Governing Pacific fisheries under climate change 278 Jan McDonald and Shannon Maree Torrens 16 Integrated oceans management and climate change 295 Karen N Scott 17 Marine spatial planning and climate change: an example from Scotland 313 Anne-Michelle Slater and Alison MacDonald PART IV ADAPTING AND RESPONDING TO CLIMATE IMPACTS ON OCEANS AND COASTS 18 Responding to ocean acidification beyond climate governance 330 Reuben Makomere and Jan McDonald 19 Ecosystem-based adaptation in coastal areas: lessons from selected case studies 348 Justine Bell-James 20 The governance of marine invasive alien species and climate change in China 366 Jiayu Bai and Jing Cheng 21 Shifting currents: climate change and maritime security in the Asia Pacific 394 Robin Warner and Stuart Kaye 22 Naval, national security and defence issues from climate change 409 Sam Bateman and Anthony Bergin 23 A global network of MPAs: an important tool in addressing climate change 425 Danielle Smith PART V INNOVATIVE GOVERNANCE FOR MARINE-BASED CLIMATE MITIGATION 24 Marine geoengineering governance and the importance of compatibility with the law of the sea 442 Kerryn Brent 25 Protecting Antarctica’s coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation 462 Brendan Gogarty, Narissa Bax, David KA Barnes, Chester Sands, Jeffrey McGee, Marcus Haward, Maria Lund Paulsen, Bernabé Moreno, Camille Moreau, Christoph Held and Rachel Downey 26 Postscript: governance for climate change, oceans and coasts in a post-COVID-19 world 485 Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee and Richard Barnes Index 493

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Book SynopsisClimate 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. SindenTrade Review'Anyone concerned about an orderly and principled human response to the planetary consequences of climate change will find guidance and insight in this collection of engaged essays ranging from conceptual perspectives on global governance and justice through to practical and institutional analysis of the ongoing transition in energy systems.' --Jamie Benidickson, University of Ottawa, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: 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

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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Climate change will bring great suffering to communities, individuals and ecosystems. Those least responsible for the problem will suffer the most. Justice demands urgent action to reverse its causes and impacts. In this provocative new book, Paul G. Harris brings together original essays to explore innovative approaches to understanding and implementing climate justice in the future. Through investigations informed by theories from philosophy, politics, sociology, law and economics, this Research Agenda reveals the actors most responsible for climate change and suggests concrete proposals for more effective mitigation. Addressing the distribution of scarce resources and the disproportionate responsibility of affluent nations and people, this insightful book asserts that climate change is a matter of equity, fairness and social and distributive justice. It argues that climate change is shaping up to be the greatest injustice in all of human history. This analytical and thought-provoking Research Agenda will be a valuable tool for climate change researchers while its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to students and academics researching in the fields of global environmental politics, sustainability, international relations, environmental philosophy and law. The examination of the key questions of climate justice from global through to individual levels will also aid policy-makers, practitioners and activists. Contributors include: R. Attfield, I. Bailey, F. Corvino, A. Dietzel, J. Donhauser, P.G. Harris, S. Kopra, J.S. Mastaler, S.R. O'Doherty, G. Pellegrini-Masini, A. Pirni, D. Storey, C. Swingle, C. Tornel, I. Wallimann-Helmer Trade Review'In his introduction to A Research Agenda for Climate Justice, Paul Harris says that it is not far-fetched to suggest that climate change is becoming the greatest injustice ever perpetrated in all human history. He may well be right. Yet how do we get others - and in democracies, a majority of voters - to see it this way? The contributors to this book not only show, from their different perspectives, why climate change is an injustice, but also take steps towards answering that question.' --Peter Singer, Princeton University, US'What should we do? Better to start with: What should we not do? The answer: Most of what we are now doing. This demands provocative, innovative research. The contributors in this exceptional volume consider future generations, effective policies, rich and poor, wealth vs. welfare, wild creatures, technology, degrowth, risks, rights, refugees, individuals in nations, large and small. There is no better analysis of the prospects of failure and success in climate justice.' --Holmes Rolston III, Colorado State University, US'Paul Harris has assembled a collection that examines important lingering questions in climate justice but also plots a new course for research in the field. Harris and his contributors explore how climate justice might be more broadly conceptualized and effectively advanced, extending the field's focus well beyond the questions about burden-sharing among nation-states that dominated its first decade.' --Steven Vanderheiden, University of Colorado, Boulder, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface ix 1 Climate justice: the urgent research agenda(s) 1 Paul G. Harris 2 Vital needs and climate change: inter-human, inter-generational and inter-species justice 15 Robin Attfield 3 Common but differentiated responsibilities: agency in climate justice 27 Ivo Wallimann-Helmer 4 The world as it is: a vision for a social science (and policy) turn in climate justice 38 David E. Storey 5 National climate-mitigation policy: the spatial framing of (in)justice claims 52 Ian Bailey 6 Climate change and capitalism: a degrowth agenda for climate justice 64 Carlos Tornel 7 A cosmopolitan agenda for climate justice: embracing non-state actors 77 Alix Dietzel and Paul G. Harris 8 Social justice and ecological consciousness: pathways to climate justice 91 James S. Mastaler 9 Climate justice in practice: adapting democratic institutions for environmental citizenship 104 Giuseppe Pellegrini-Masini, Fausto Corvino and Alberto Pirni 10 Climate refugees: realizing justice through existing institutions 118 Justin Donhauser 11 Pre-emptive justice for future generations: reframing climate change as a ‘humanitarian climate crime’ 131 Selina Rose O’Doherty 12 Climate justice after the Paris Agreement: understanding equity through nationally determined contributions 143 Claire Swingle 13 Responsibility for climate justice: the role of great powers 158 Sanna Kopra Index 171

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Book SynopsisSarnoff's Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change is packed with varied perspectives and essential information and is therefore a very useful guide for anyone interested in IP and climate change (and beyond!). To have all this packed tightly into one book is a great thing. I m quite pleased to have it on my bookshelf.'- Eric Lane, Green Patent BlogWritten by a global group of leading scholars, this wide-ranging Research Handbook provides insightful analysis, useful historical perspective, and a point of reference on the controversial nexus of climate change law and policy, intellectual property law and policy, innovation policy, technology transfer, and trade.The contributors provide a unique review of the scientific background, international treaties, and political and institutional contexts of climate change and intellectual property law. They further identify critical conflicts and differences of approach between developed and developing countries. Finally they put forward and analyze the relevant intellectual property law doctrines and policy options for funding, developing, disseminating, and regulating the required technologies and their associated activities and business practices. The book will serve as a resource and reference tool for scholars, policymakers and practitioners looking to understand the issues at the interface of intellectual property and climate change.Contributors: P. Ala'i, C. de Avila Plaza, D. Borges Barbosa, P. Bifani, M.A. Carrier, M.W. Carroll, J.L. Contreras, C.M. Correa, E. Derclaye, P. Drahos, C.H. Farley, S. Ferrey, S.E. Gaines, D.A. Gantz, D.J. Gervais, D. Hunter, The International Council on Human Rights Policy, D.S. Levine, C.R. McManis, R.K. Musil, S.K. Sandeen, J.D. Sarnoff, D. Shabalala, G. Tansey, B. Tuncak, J.M. Urban, D. Vivas-Eugui, H. Wang, P.K. YuTrade Review'Given Di Caprio's acceptance speech at the Oscars, calling on the world to take climate change seriously, this terrific tome could not have been more timely! Boasting a splendid array of scholars and policy makers, it traverses a wide spectrum of issues at the interface of IP and climate change technologies. Professor Joshua Sarnoff needs to be commended for conceptualizing and co-ordinating this project, resulting in a bountiful book that offers incisive insights on one of the foremost policy challenges facing the world today!' --Dr Shamnad Basheer, India'Tackling the climate problem will require the development, deployment and transfer of a wide variety of technologies at a pace and scale unprecedented outside of wartime. This will involve not only the environmental, energy and treaty laws familiar to climate law specialists, but also a bewildering array of issues under intellectual property, trade, procurement and other legal fields. Joshua Sarnoff has done a wonderful job in assembling leading experts from around the world to illuminate these complex matters.' --Michael B. Gerrard, Columbia Law School'In the wake of the Paris Agreement, there is a great need to encourage a transition to a clean energy world economy. Intellectual property and innovation policy will play a critical role in research, development, and deployment of clean technologies. In this context, the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change edited by Joshua Sarnoff is essential reading. This landmark collection provides a comprehensive examination of the inter-relationship between intellectual property and climate change. Leading authors from around the world tackle topics such as international law, patent law, green trade marks, copyright law, and trade secrets law. The Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Climate Change also considers larger public policy issues in respect of climate finance, innovation law and policy, government procurement, standard-setting, and competition law.' --Matthew Rimmer, Queensland University of Technology, QueenslandTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Joshua D. Sarnoff 2. Climate Science and Policy Responses David Hunter 3. International Law and Institutions for Climate Change Sanford E. Gaines 4. Climate Change, the International Intellectual Property Régime, and Disputes Under the TRIPS Agreement Daniel J. Gervais 5. Intellectual Property Rights Under the UNFCCC: Without Response to Developing Countries’ Concerns Carlos M. Correa 6. The Intellectual Property Regime: Are There Lessons for Climate Change Negotiations? Peter Drahos 7. Intellectual Property Enforcement and Global Climate Change Peter K. Yu 8. Beyond Technology Transfer: Protecting Human Rights in a Climate-constrained World The International Council On Human Rights Policy 9. Behind the Wall: Global Climate Change and American Religion Robert K. Musil 10. Technology Transfer for Climate Change and Developing Country Viewpoints on Historical Responsibility and Common but Differentiated Responsibilities Dalindyebo Shabalala 11. Government Choices in Innovation Funding Joshua D. Sarnoff 12. Catalyzing Technology Development Through University Research Jorge L. Contreras and Charles R. McManis 13. Antitrust and Climate Change Michael A. Carrier 14. Climate Change Innovation, Products and Services Under the GATT/WTO System David A. Gantz and Padideh Ala’i 15. The Role of Government Procurement in Regard to Development, Dissemination and Costs of Climate Change Technologies Denis Borges Barbosa and Charlene de Avila Plaza 16. Patents and Climate Change Joshua D. Sarnoff 17. Trade Secrets and Climate Change: Uncovering Secret Solutions to the Problem of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sharon K. Sandeen and David S. Levine 18. The Role of Copyright in the Protection of the Environment and the Fight Against Climate Change: Is the Current Copyright System Adequate? Estelle Derclaye 19. Intellectual Property and Related Rights in Climate Data Michael W. Carroll 20. Green Marks Christine Haight Farley 21. Standards and Related Intellectual Property Issues for Climate Change Technology Jorge L. Contreras 22. Privacy Issues in Smart Grid Deployment Jennifer M. Urban 23. Energy Steven Ferrey 24. Transportation Paolo Bifani, David Vivas-Eugui, and Hiafeng Wang 25. Food Geoff Tansey 26. Natural Resources Baskut Tuncak Index

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Book SynopsisThis topical book examines the issues surrounding climate change and sustainability in relation to the freight transport sector. Written by an interdisciplinary team of contributors, the book approaches the topic from a multitude of perspectives, demonstrating that the sector will need to undergo significant changes in order to meet climate change targets. In addition to examining the challenges facing the transport sector, chapters also offer practical suggestions as to how the sector can achieve the required transformation. Legal methods are considered along with the application of new technologies and the implementation of alternative incentive structures as ways to promote sustainability and reduce emissions. Featuring contributions from leading authors from logistics, business, law and sustainability backgrounds, Sustainable and Efficient Transport demonstrates that a more integrated approach is needed at an EU level, to bring about the paradigm shift required for reducing transport emissions and making the sector more sustainable. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers working in both sustainability and transport. Lawyers, industry professionals and policy-makers will also benefit from insights in to the effectiveness of current policies and alternative solutions to contemporary challenges. Trade Review'Transport and the law on transportation belongs to the core of international commercial law. Litigation is either subject to arbitration or to the few national courts that enjoy the reputation of being impartial. The field is built on old conventions and the rationality of bilateral contractual relations. This book shifts the perspective from international commercial law - the law of contracts - to sustainability and to the SDG - the Sustainable Development Goals. Everybody knows that it is time to act, but very little happens. This book shows the potential avenues that politics has to take. There is no alternative. The digital economy provides the potential to rethink the way in which transportation is organized and the law that needs to govern green transportation. There is more needed than a little bit of adjustment here and there. The traditional understanding of the law of transportation which sets aside the externalities of transportation has to be thoroughly overhauled.' --Hans-W Micklitz, European University Institute, ItalyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Sirpa Pietikäinen Preface PART I THE TARGET OF SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT AND THE NEED FOR SOCIAL ENGINEERING 1. Responding to the grand challenge of our time Beate Sjåfjell 2. Measures for the sustainable shipping of goods Erik Røsæg 3. The Single European Transport Area and sustainability of the transport industry Rosa Greaves PART II THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND DIGITALIZATION – TRANSPORT IN A GREEN MARKET 4. Organization boundaries. How to integrate transport operations in circular economy thinking. The timber casestudy María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo, Juana María Rivera-Lirio, Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero, Elena Escrig-Olmedo and José Vicente Gisbert-Navarro 5. The physical internet as enabler of new business models enhancing greener transports and the circular economy Mervi Rajahonka, Anu Bask, Sadaat Ali Yawar and Markku Tinnilä 6. Financing sustainable market actors in the circular economy Jukka Mähönen 7. Suitability of and regulatory barriers to the European emissions trading scheme regulating GHG emissionsfrom transport 117 Emilie Yliheljo PART III INFORMATION AS A DRIVER FOR GREEN BEHAVIOUR 8. A sustainable behavioural change in the transport industry – the role of emission information Ellen Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson 9. Sustainability in contractually organized supply chains: Coordinating transport Jaakko Salminen 10. The way of business contracts: How to promote (transport) sustainability and incentivize the green economy via Contract Management Suvi Hirvonen-Ere 11. Product information on freight emissions for consumers – changing the market towards sustainability Suvi Sankari PART IV GREEN FREIGHT – SOLUTIONS AND OBSTACLES 12. Towards a model for sustainable platooning cooperation in road transport Wouter Verheyen 13. Who pays for oil pollution at sea? Some remarks on the interplay between certainty of the law and unpredictability Andrea La Mattina Index

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Book SynopsisManaging climate change requires action on both its causes (reducing emissions) and its consequences (adapting to impacts that can no longer be avoided). Human societies can thrive in many climatic conditions. However, such adaptation is not necessarily smooth, and it cannot be taken for granted. This review synthesises the contribution of economics to the study and practice of climate resilience and adaptation, identifying some of the most influential articles by economists on climate change adaptation since the topic became a subject of academic interest.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Sam Fankhauser PART I THE STATE OF THE ART 1. Sam Fankhauser (2017), ‘Adaptation to Climate Change’, Annual Review of Resource Economics, 9, October, 209–30 2. Matthew E. Kahn (2016), ‘The Climate Change Adaptation Literature’, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 10 (1), Winter, 166–78 3. Robert Mendelsohn (2012), ‘The Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries’, Climate Change Economics, 3 (2), August, 1250006-1–21 4. Melissa Dell, Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken (2014), ‘What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate–Economy Literature’, Journal of Economic Literature, 52 (3), September, 740–98 5. Karen Fisher-Vanden, Ian Sue Wing, Elisa Lanzi and David Popp (2013), ‘Modeling Climate Change Feedbacks and Adaptation Responses: Recent Approaches and Shortcomings’, Climatic Change, 117 (3), April, 481–95 PART II THE ANALYSIS OF ADAPTATION BEHAVIOUR A Agriculture 6. Robert Mendelsohn, William D. Nordhaus and Daigee Shaw (1994), ‘The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis’, American Economic Review, 84 (4), September, 753–71 7. S. Niggol Seo and Robert Mendelsohn (2008), ‘An Analysis of Crop Choice: Adapting to Climate Change in South American Farms’, Ecological Economics, 67 (1), August, 109–16 8. Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi and Mahmud Yesuf (2011), ‘Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? A Micro-Perspective from Ethiopia’, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93 (3), April, 829–46 9. Harounan Kazianga and Christopher Udry (2006), ‘Consumption Smoothing? Livestock, Insurance and Drought in Rural Burkina Faso’, Journal of Development Economics, 79 (2), April, 413–46 10. Marshall Burke and Kyle Emerick (2016), ‘Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 8 (3), August, 106–40 B Energy Use 11. Maximilian Auffhammer and Erin T. Mansur (2014), ‘Measuring Climatic Impacts on Energy Consumption: A Review of the Empirical Literature’, Energy Economics, 46, November, 522–30 12. Olivier Deschênes and Michael Greenstone (2011), ‘Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US’, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3 (4), October, 152–85 13. David Rapson (2014), ‘Durable Goods and Long-Run Electricity Demand: Evidence from Air Conditioner Purchase Behavior’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68 (1), July, 141–60 14. Enrica De Cian, Elisa Lanzi and Roberto Roson (2013), ‘Seasonal Temperature Variations and Energy Demand: A Panel Cointegration Analysis for Climate Change Impact Assessment’, Climatic Change, 116 (3–4), February, 805–25 C Coastal Protection 15. S. Fankhauser (1995), ‘Protection versus Retreat: The Economic Costs of Sea-Level Rise’, Environment and Planning A, 27 (2), February, 299–319 16. Paul Kirshen, Kelly Knee and Matthias Ruth (2008), ‘Climate Change and Coastal Flooding in Metro Boston: Impacts and Adaptation Strategies’, Climatic Change, 90 (4), October, 453–73 17. Robert J. Nicholls, Natasha Marinova, Jason A. Lowe, Sally Brown, Pier Vellinga, Diogo de Gusmão, Jochen Hinkel and Richard S.J. Tol (2011), ‘Sea-Level Rise and its Possible Impacts Given a “Beyond 4°C World” in the Twenty-First Century’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 369 (1934), 13th January, 161–81 18. Luis Maria Abadie, Ibon Galarraga and Elisa Sainz de Murieta (2017), ‘Understanding Risks in the Light of Uncertainty: Low-Probability, High-Impact Coastal Events in Cities’, Environmental Research Letters, 12 (1), January, 1–7, Addendum 1–5 D Disaster Response 19. V. Kerry Smith, Jared C. Carbone, Jaren C. Pope, Daniel G. Hallstrom and Michael E. Darden (2006), ‘Adjusting to Natural Disasters’, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 33 (1–2), September, 37–54 20. Marcel Fafchamps and Susan Lund (2003), ‘Risk-Sharing Networks in Rural Philippines’, Journal of Development Economics, 71 (2), August, 261–87 21. Luca Marchiori, Jean-François Maystadt and Ingmar Schumacher (2012), ‘The Impact of Weather Anomalies on Migration in Sub- Saharan Africa’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63 (3), May, 355–74 22. Leah Platt Boustan, Matthew E. Kahn and Paul W. Rhode (2012), ‘Moving to Higher Ground: Migration Response to Natural Disasters in the Early Twentieth Century’, American Economic Review, 102 (3), May, 238–44 23. Qing Miao and David Popp (2014), ‘Necessity as the Mother of Invention: Innovative Responses to Natural Disasters’, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 68 (2), September, 280–95 PART III ADAPTATION PLANNING A Adaptation Priorities 24. Samuel Fankhauser, Joel B. Smith and Richard S.J. Tol (1999), ‘Weathering Climate Change: Some Simple Rules to Guide Adaptation Decisions’, Ecological Economics, 30 (1), July, 67–78 25. H.-M. Füssel (2007), ‘Adaptation Planning for Climate Change: Concepts, Assessment Approaches, and Key Lessons’, Sustainability Science, 2 (2), October, 265–75 26. Shardul Agrawala, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, Kelly De Bruin, Enrica De Cian, Rob Dellink and Elisa Lanzi (2011), ‘Plan or React? Analysis of Adaptation Costs and Benefits Using Integrated Assessment Models’, Climate Change Economics, 2 (3), 175–208 27. Stéphane Hallegatte (2009), ‘Strategies to Adapt to an Uncertain Climate Change’, Global Environmental Change, 19 (2), May, 240–47 B Making Adaptation Decisions 28. Paul Watkiss, Alistair Hunt, William Blyth and Jillian Dyszynski (2015), ‘The Use of New Economic Decision Support Tools for Adaptation Assessment: A Review of Methods and Applications, Towards Guidance on Applicability’, Climatic Change, 132 (3), October, 401–16 29. Peter Linquiti and Nicholas Vonortas (2012), ‘The Value of Flexibility in Adapting to Climate Change: A Real Options Analysis of Investments in Coastal Defense’, Climate Change Economics, 3 (2), 1250008-1–33 30. Nicola Ranger, Tim Reeder and Jason Lowe (2013), ‘Addressing “Deep” Uncertainty over Long-Term Climate in Major Infrastructure Projects: Four Innovations of the Thames Estuary 2100 Project’, EURO Journal on Decision Processes, 1 (3–4), November, 233–62 31. Suraje Dessai and Mike Hulme (2007), ‘Assessing the Robustness of Adaptation Decisions to Climate Change Uncertainties: A Case Study on Water Resources Management in the East of England’, Global Environmental Change, 17 (1), February, 59–72 C Barriers to Adaptation 32. Gary Yohe and Richard S.J. Tol (2002), ‘Indicators for Social and Economic Coping Capacity – Moving Toward a Working Definition of Adaptive Capacity’, Global Environmental Change, 12 (1), April, 25–40 33. Torsten Grothmann and Anthony Patt (2005), ‘Adaptive Capacity and Human Cognition: The Process of Individual Adaptation to Climate Change’, Global Environmental Change, 15 (3), October, 199–213 34. Russell S. Sobel and Peter T. Leeson (2006), ‘Government’s Response to Hurricane Katrina: A Public Choice Analysis’, Public Choice, 127 (1–2), April, 55–73 35. Peter T. Leeson and Russell S. Sobel (2008), ‘Weathering Corruption’, Journal of Law and Economics, 51 (4), November, 667–81 36. W. Neil Adger, Suraje Dessai, Marisa Goulden, Mike Hulme, Irene Lorenzoni, Donald R. Nelson, Lars Otto Naess, Johanna Wolf and Anita Wreford (2009), ‘Are There Social Limits to Adaptation to Climate Change?’, Climatic Change, 93 (3–4), April, 335–54 PART IV CLIMATE-RESILIENT DEVELOPMENT A Adaptation and Development 37. Paul Collier, Gordon Conway and Tony Venables (2008), ‘Climate Change and Africa’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24 (2), July, 337–53 38. Thomas C. Schelling (1992), ‘Some Economics of Global Warming’, American Economic Review, 82 (1), March, 1–14 39. Matthew E. Kahn (2005), ‘The Death Toll from Natural Disasters: The Role of Income, Geography, and Institutions’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 87 (2), May, 271–84 40. Samuel Fankhauser and Thomas K.J. McDermott (2014), ‘Understanding the Adaptation Deficit: Why Are Poor Countries More Vulnerable to Climate Events than Rich Countries?’, Global Environmental Change, 27, July, 9–18 41. Robert W. Kates (2000), ‘Cautionary Tales: Adaptation and the Global Poor’, Climatic Change, 45 (1), April, 5–17 B Adaptation Finance 42. Samuel Fankhauser and David Pearce (2014), ‘Financing for Sustainable Development’, in Giles Atkinson, Simon Dietz, Eric Neumayer and Matthew Agarwala (eds), Handbook of Sustainable Development, 2nd edn, Chapter 28, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 446–59 43. Joel B. Smith, Thea Dickinson, Joseph D.B. Donahue, Ian Burton, Erik Haites, Richard J.T. Klein and Anand Patwardhan (2011), ‘Development and Climate Change Adaptation Funding: Coordination and Integration’, Climate Policy: International Financial Support to Address Climate Change, 11 (3), 987–1000 44. Sam Barrett (2013), ‘Local Level Climate Justice? Adaptation Finance and Vulnerability Reduction’, Global Environmental Change, 23 (6), December, 1819–29 45. Seraina Buob and Gunter Stephan (2013), ‘On the Incentive Compatibility of Funding Adaptation’, Climate Change Economics, 4 (2), September, 1350005-1–18 46. Karen Pittel and Dirk Rübbelke (2013), ‘International Climate Finance and Its Influence on Fairness and Policy’, World Economy, 36 (4), April, 419–36 Index

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Book SynopsisEmissions Trading Systems (ETS) have been hailed as a game changer for the evolving climate crisis. This book provides an in-depth analysis of China’s carbon ETS, including its legal and policy frameworks, carbon market mechanisms, and international and comparative implications.With nine cutting-edge topics divided into three thematic parts, this comprehensive book probes the essential concepts, contemporary research, and key elements of carbon emissions trading in China. Multidisciplinary in scope, the book draws on insights from law, policy, economics, environmental management, and geopolitics, to provide a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the development of carbon emissions trading in China. Placing China’s carbon ETS within the broader context of international efforts to address climate change, it provides a comparative perspective with international value.This book will be an essential resource for scholars and researchers of international and comparative climate law and policy, environmental management, economics, and climate politics. It will prove an indispensable guide for students of Chinese law, climate law, environmental policy, and comparative environmental law. Practitioners, policymakers, and government officials working in climate governance seeking the state-of-the-art of the development of ETS in China will also benefit greatly from its insights.Trade Review‘It is clear that to overcome the climate crises, the contribution of China, which for more than a decade has been the largest emitter of GHG, is crucial. With this book, two renowned authors, Professor Dr Qin Tianbao and Dr Zhang Meng, unfold for us in a very detailed manner China’s most important instrument to combat carbon emissions from industry: the Emission Trading System. This comprehensive monograph is a must read for all those interested in global climate change law.’ -- Luc Lavrysen, Centre for Environmental and Energy Law, Ghent University, Belgium‘China is now becoming a major player in the global climate change game. After initial pilots it introduced an emission trading system at the national level. This fascinating book provides a detailed analysis of the legal aspects of ETS in China. Both the economic rationale as well as the legal regulations are explained in a detailed manner. Anyone interested in climate change policy and environmental policy in China will undoubtedly benefit from reading this book.’ -- Michael G. Faure, Maastricht University and Erasmus University Rotterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Biography of the authors vi Introduction vii PART I CONTEXT, FUNDAMENTAL RATIONALE AND HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT 1 Contextual setting for emissions trading in China: is the market-based approach a game changer for the ever-changing climate game? 2 Introduction to the key concepts and issues arising from the developing ETS in China 3 Historical development of emissions trading in China PART II ETS IN CHINA’S LEGAL AND POLICY DISCOURSES 4 Regional pilot emissions trading in China: a bottom-up approach towards a national ETS? 5 Legislative progress: the last mile to a well-established regulatory framework for the national ETS in China 6 Emerging climate litigation and developing ETS in China 7 Interactions between the ETS regulatory framework and other climate mechanisms towards the Dual Carbon Goals in China PART III HARMONIZATION OF CARBON MARKETS IN CHINA AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS 8 The role of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism in linking emissions trading in China and the EU: troublemaker or game changer? 9 Synergetic development of the ETS in China and Southeast Asia: towards a regional ‘climate club’? Index

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Book SynopsisAlthough the world faces many environmental challenges, climate change continues to demand attention in both academic and public spheres. Innovation Addressing Climate Change Challenges explores ways in which market-based instruments and complementary policies can help countries meet their climate change goals following the Paris Agreement.In this insightful book, internationally distinguished climate change scholars have come together to examine the potential of a range of market-based instruments. These include carbon pricing, coal subsidies, vehicle taxation, government incentives for the electricity sector, and noise pollution taxes. Offering useful market-based perspectives, the book not only demonstrates the possibilities that these various instruments offer in reducing the risks of climate change, but also the challenges that exist in utilizing them. These insights will help to inform the many climate policy decisions that lie ahead.Astute and forward thinking, this timely book will be of vital importance to both students and scholars of environmental law and environmental economics with a particular focus on climate change. Political science students, as well as government officials, will also find its guidance on future policy engaging and timely.Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Janet E. Milne Preface PART I Carbon pricing design and prospects 1. Introducing carbon taxes - issues and barriers Stefan E. Weishaar 2. Border adjustment with taxes or allowances to level the price of carbon Mikael Skou Andersen 3. Towards Bottom-up carbon pricing in Canada Takeshi Kawakatsu and Sven Rudolph 4. Beyond Thunderdome? The prospects of federal greenhouse gas cap-and-trade in Australia Elena Aydos and Sven Rudolph 5. How market-based emissions reduction mechanisms affect private property in Australia Vanessa Johnston PART II Complementary tax approaches 6. Vehicle taxation in EU member states Claudia Kettner and Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig 7. Cutting Europe’s lifelines to coal subsidies Shelagh Whitley, Laurie van der Burgh, Leah Worrall and Sejal Patel 8. Noise pollution taxes: a possibility to explore Marta Villar Ezcurra 9. Tackling environmental pollution in Seoul, South Korea through tax incentives and related strategies Stephanie Lee, Heidi Hylton Meier and Paul J. Lee PART III Revenue perspectives 10. Green ICMS - Brazil’s tax revenue distribution based on environmental criteria Lise Tupiassu, Bernardo Mendonça Nobrega and Jean-Raphaël Gros-Désormaux 11. Climate change-related action and non-productive investments in the European Union María Amparo Grau Ruiz 12. Total economic value of the Cagayan de Oro river basin Rosalina Palanca-Tan, Catherine Roween Chico-Almaden, Ma. Kresna Navarro, Marichu Melendez-Obedencio and Caroline Laarni Rubio-Sereñas PART IV Incentives for the electricity sector 13. Low-income households in New York’s Reforming the Energy Visions Ross Astoria 14. Mitigating the environmental consequences of electricity sector “lock in”: options for a de-carbonised energy future Rowena Cantley-Smith 15. An overview of zero emission credits for nuclear power plants in the United States Hans Sprohge and Larry Kreiser Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Research Handbook offers an insightful review of how legal systems – whether domestic, international or transnational – can and should adjust to fairly and effectively support loss and damage (L&D) claims in climate change law. International contributors guide readers through a detailed assessment of the history and current state of L&D provisions under the UN climate regime and consider the opportunities to fund L&D claims both within and outside the UN climate system. Split into four parts, the Research Handbook investigates the current legal frameworks for L&D across both public international law and domestic law. Chapters explore foundational issues including equity and justice and give a critical assessment of the current state and potential future evolution of international legal systems. The contributing authors also discuss the challenges faced by different legal systems in dealing effectively and fairly with L&D.Providing a comprehensive overview of this important topic, this Research Handbook will be an excellent resource for climate lawyers and policymakers. It will also be an invaluable read for academics and students researching environmental and climate issues.Trade Review‘Meinhard Doelle and Sara L. Seck offer a brave and overdue intervention into conventional climate law and loss & damage scholarship. They adopt an unflinchingly equity-oriented approach to climate law and explore some of the most contentious yet essential challenges – including climate justice, racial capitalism, colonialism, intersectionality and private sector participation. In addition to grappling with these challenges head on, the book also offers granular analysis of core questions of international law and international institutions and would be essential reading for anyone interested in climate law, loss & damage, or more far-reaching questions of how to draw upon the rule of law to build a safer and more equitable world.’ -- Cinnamon Carlarne, The Ohio State University, US‘Meinhard Doelle and Sara Seck bring together an impressive update on this ever evolving subject, providing required discussions on the importance of our response to climate change. Well-respected contributors provide insightful thoughts on the topic making this an essential read for those practicing within climate law and policy and academics and scholars studying the environment and climate change.’ -- Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Adjunct Professor, Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of IrelandTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introducing loss and damage 1 Meinhard Doelle and Sara L Seck PART I FRAMEWORKS 2 Equity considerations in loss and damage 18 Nathalie J. Chalifour 3 The sacrifice zones of carbon capitalism: race, expendability, and loss and damage 43 Carmen G. Gonzalez 4 Measuring the immeasurable: loss and damage from climate change in international law 60 Usha Natarajan PART II PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW 5 Loss and damage under the Convention 75 Linda Siegele 6 Loss and damage under the Paris Agreement 100 Linda Siegele 7 Arrested development: the late and inequitable integration of loss and damage finance into the UNFCCC 127 Patricia Galvão Ferreira 8 Against the headwind: innovative sources of loss and damage finance 149 Patricia Galvão Ferreira 9 State responsibility for damages associated with climate change 166 Christina Voigt 10 Valuation of climate change loss and damage 184 Cymie R Payne 11 A rights-based approach to loss and damage due to climate change 201 Katherine Lofts, Sébastien Jodoin and Larissa Parker 12 Indigenous peoples, climate change loss and damage, and the responsibilities of states 223 Kyle Powys Whyte 13 Loss and damage, climate displacement and international law: addressing the protection gap 244 Sumudu Atapattu 14 Loss and damage, disaster law, and climate change 266 Anastasia Telesetsky 15 Solar radiation modification and loss & damage: mapping interactions between climate responses 286 Neil Craik PART III DOMESTIC, TRANSNATIONAL AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW 16 Atmospheric recovery litigation around the world: gaining natural resource damages against carbon majors to fund a sky cleanup for climate restoration 303 Mary Christina Wood 17 Loss and damage in European litigation 331 Roda Verheyen and Johannes Franke 18 Towards a civil liability regime for climate-related loss and damage 349 Sharon Mascher 19 Think globally, sue locally: challenges and opportunities in international climate litigation in domestic courts 368 Andrew Gage 20 Carbon major companies and liability for loss and damage 390 Lisa Benjamin 21 Class actions and climate change loss and damage litigation 409 C. Cameron and R. Weyman PART IV CONCLUSIONS 22 Pathways and prospects for loss & damage and climate justice 433 Sara L Seck and Meinhard Doelle Index

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Book SynopsisUtilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the political rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of governance. Demonstrating the potential of combining the use of juridical, administrative and governmental powers, Zhang holistically considers the success of the state in instigating low-carbon transitions in China and mitigating climate disaster. The book provides an in-depth exploration of the art of greening the Chinese financial system and how this links to a wider formulation of carbon governmentality, highlighting the rise of the carbon governmental state through a range of governmental technologies. Engaging with a wide range of primary data from both national and local levels, the author uncovers profound lessons in low-carbon transitions for other states in the making of a carbon neutral world. This cutting-edge book offers key insights for scholars and researchers of environmental governance and its importance in mitigating climate change, particularly those with a key focus on Chinese climate policy. It will also benefit government officials, researchers and consultants investigating potential avenues for low-carbon transition and climate action.Trade Review‘Suffice to say it is truly original and illuminating. She shows how China’s government has successfully combined discourse and leadership with an evolving range of policy instruments to bring about the widely recognized achievements in constraining the rise of carbon emissions.’ -- Philip Andrews-Speed, The China QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: 1. The China phenomenon 2. Understanding China’s low-carbon transitions in theory 3. Beneath China’s low-carbon transitions: political rationalities 4. Beneath China’s low-carbon transitions: governing techniques and technologies 5. Greening the financial system in China 6. Localizing the low-carbon transition: a tale of three Chinese cities 7. Conclusion: the rise of a carbon governmental state in China References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on first hand interview data with experts and government officials, Olivia Gippner develops a new analytical framework to explore the vested interests and policy debates surrounding Chinese climate policy-making. Scrutinising the ''turf wars'' that have erupted between bureaucratic institutions competing for resources, promotions and access, this innovative book unpacks the histories and trajectories of Chinese climate policies, placing them in the context of the international politics of climate change. Gippner's new framework is deployed in detailed case studies based on the 2°C target, emissions trading and carbon capture and storage to illustrate the timing and scale of climate policy adoption. This book will appeal to researchers exploring the creation and establishment of Chinese policy and the influence from other countries, in particular the EU's climate policy promotion. Environmental politics and climate policy researchers looking to expand their research field will also benefit from this book's unique framework of analysis. Policymakers and the growing think tank community in this field will value details from first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials and climate change negotiators.Trade Review‘As far as I am concerned, the contributions of the study are threefold. First, from a theoretical point of view, the study contributes to the literature on bureaucratic politics and EU external governance. Second, it features a research approach that combines process tracing with case study research, thereby providing insights regarding the combination of research methods. Finally, it offers empirical insights for the growing research agenda that deals with Chinese climate policymaking, internal politics and the role of external international actors. This book is a great accomplishment and is bound to inspire further fascinating debates and research on Chinese climate change policy.’ -- Haoliang Zhang, Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental LawTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction 2. Explaining Climate Policy Adoption and Role of external actors 3. Background 4. Actors in China’s Climate Policy-Promotion 5. Case Study 1: 2° C Temperature Target 6. Case Study 2: Emissions Trading 7. Case Study 3: Carbon Capture and Storage 8. Analysis: Connecting Domestic and International Influences on Policy Adoption 9. Chinese Climate Policy and the European Union during the Hu-Wen Leadership (2003-2013) 10. Bibliography 11. Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely book analyses the status of hydrocarbon energy in Russia as both a saleable commodity and as a source of societal and political power. Through empirical studies in domestic and foreign policy contexts, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen explores the development of a hydrocarbon culture in Russia and the impact this has on its politics, identity and approach to climate change and renewable energy. Cogent and compelling, this book demonstrates how the Russian state leverages its oil and gas reserves in order to create and maintain power both domestically and internationally. Tynkkynen uses empirical studies of key topics such as the national gas programme Gazprom, the Arctic, climate discourse and anthropogenic climate change denial, and the Russia-Finland energy trade to critically examine the situation. The book concludes with a convincing argument for the potential of renewable energy to build a more resilient and sustainable future for Russia and how this might be achieved. This will prove crucial reading for scholars and students of Russian and Eastern European studies and energy and environmental studies, as well as geographers, anthropologists and political scientists. Those working in governments, international organizations and corporations with an interest in Russian energy will also find its insights useful.Trade Review'With a geographer's eye for the importance of space and an eclectic theoretical toolkit, Tynkkynen provides fresh insights into the workings of hydrocarbon culture in Russia. This book's analyses of the relationships between Russia s dependence on fossil fuels and the science of climate change is especially interesting, not least because Tynkkynen offers his own perspectives--and concrete recommendations--on what it will take for Russia to move beyond hydrocarbon culture and embrace a renewable energy future.' --Douglas Rogers, Yale University, US'This fascinating journey through Russia's energy politics is a great read for those interested in Russia's political developments and priorities. The book offers carefully documented insights into energy politics. At the same time, the broader picture - foreign policy consequences, challenges in the Arctic, prospects of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the country's future ''green economy'' - is always clearly and engagingly in view.' --Elana Wilson Rowe, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway'In this book, Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen provides a well-informed perspective on Russia as an energy superpower. Russia presents a formidable obstacle to efforts to tackle climate change, since its dependence on fossil fuels has become deeply entrenched in its domestic political institutions and foreign policy. However, by pointing to Russia's forestry resources and potential as a ''green superpower'', Tynkkynen does show a possible way forward.' --Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction – hydrocarbon culture amidst a changing climate 2. Russia’s energy via a spatial prism – energy flows in a mycelium of power 3. Energy as domestic power – the case of Gazifikatsiya Rossii 4. Energy as international power – the case of Russian–Finnish energy trade 5. The national taboo of hydrocarbon culture – changing the Arctic environment 6. The global taboo of hydrocarbon culture – “There is no climate change” 7. The climate is changing Russia – from a hydrocarbon to an ecological culture References Index

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