Climate Change and the Voiceless - Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources

List of contents

1. An Anthropogenic problem that requires an ecocentric solution; 2. Climate change litigation in domestic courts and human rights commissions; 3. Protection of future generations prior to and during the Anthropocene era; 4. Legal personhood for wildlife: US and foreign domestic perspectives; 5. Rights of nature: US and foreign domestic perspectives; 6. Proposal for enhanced stewardship and rights-based protections for the voiceless; Index.

About the author

Randall S. Abate is the Assistant Dean for Environmental Law Studies The George Washington University Law School, an inaugural Rechnitz Family and Urban Coast Institute Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy, and Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Monmouth University, New Jersey. In his twenty-five years of full-time law teaching, he has taught international and comparative law courses on environmental and animal law topics in several countries, with a recent emphasis on climate change law and justice. He is the author of thirty law journal articles and the editor of five books, including Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges (2017), What Can Animal Law Learn From Environmental Law? (2015), and Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law: U.S. and International Perspectives (2015).

Product details

• Authors: Randall S. Abate, Randall S. (Monmouth University Abate, Abate Randall S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108703222
• ISBN: 978-1-108-70322-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Human Rights, LAW / Environmental, Environmental Economics, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Human rights, civil rights, Environmental policy & protocols, International Environmental Law, Public international law: environment, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental policy and protocols