Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change.

Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Exploring the Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change: An Introduction -- 1. Where Might We Be Headed? Some of the Possible Consequences of Climate Change for the Criminological Research Agenda -- 2. International Legal Responses to the Challenges of a Lower Carbon Future: Energy Law for the Twenty-first Century -- 3. UK Climate Change Litigation: Between Hard and Soft Framing -- 4. Climate Change and Paradoxical Harm -- 5. Corporate Governance and Climate Change -- 6. Climate Change, Environmental (In)Security, Conflict and Crime -- 7. Analysis of Climate Change from a Human Rights Perspective -- 8. Climate Change and Aid Funding: An Appraisal of Recent Developments -- 9. Climate Change: Effects on Mobility of EU Workers and the Need to Safeguard Supplementary (Occupational) Pension Rights -- 10. Defining Pollution Down: Forestry, Climate Change and the Dark Figure of Carbon Emissions -- 11. Personal Carbon Trading: Towards Sustainable Consumption in an Age of Climate Change and Energy Constraints -- 12. State Responsibility for the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on Individuals: Assessing the Potential for an Interdisciplinary Approach -- 13. Situating Climate Change in (International) Law: A Triptych of Competing Narratives -- Index.

This edited collection, the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain in 2010, explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community.

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