Climate Justice and Disaster Law

This book provides a unique, comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of climate justice and disaster law.

List of contents

1. Climate science at the interface with law- and policy-making; 2. The international climate change negotiations: nothing more than sounding brass or tinkling cymbals?; 3. Towards a vision for climate justice in a post-2015 world; 4. Preventing climate disasters: integrating adaptation and disaster risk reduction; 5. Response, recovery and rebuilding; 6. Compensating the victims of climate disasters; 7. Towards an inclusive and impartial practical reasoning process on climate justice and disaster law in a post-2015 world.

About the author

Rosemary Lyster is Professor of Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. She is also Director of the Law School's Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law.

Summary

This book is for interdisciplinary scholars in science, social sciences, economics and law who are interested in the growing phenomenon of climate disasters. It develops a unique theory of climate justice regarding extreme weather and slow onset events, which, when they intersect with vulnerability and exposure, create climate disasters.

Product details

• Authors: Rosemary Lyster, Rosemary (University of Sydney) Lyster, Lyster Rosemary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107514683
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51468-3
• No. of pages: 434
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Law, LAW / International, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, LAW / Public, LAW / Environmental, The environment, Science / Environmental Science, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology, Environment law, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment