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Title:
Climate law and developing countries : legal and policy challenges for the world economy
Author:
Richardson, Benjamin J.
ISBN:
9781848449824
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2011.
Physical Description:
xv, 425 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
New horizons in environmental and energy law
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: climate law and developing countries / Stepan Wood -- pt. 1 Climate Justice -- 2.Climate change, differentiated responsibilities and state responsibility: devising novel legal strategies for damage caused by climate change / Sumudu Atapattu -- 3.India's constitutional challenge: a less visible climate change catastrophe / Deepa Badrinarayana -- 4.Promoting justice within the international legal system: prospects for climate refugees / Angela Williams -- 5.Climate change and indigenous peoples in the South Pacific: the need for regional and local strategies / Eric Kwa -- pt. 2 Expanding the Scope of the Climate Change Legal Regimes -- 6.Supporting adaptation in developing countries at the national and global levels / Jolene Lin -- 7.Designing a REDD mechanism: the TDERM triptych / Kirsten Macey --

Contents note continued: 8.The role of marine `forests' and soils as carbon sinks: enhanced bio-sequestration as a mitigation strategy to help avoid dangerous climate change / Robert Fowler -- 9.Adaptation to climate change to save biodiversity: lessons learned from African and European experiences / Kees Bastmeijer -- pt. 3 The Clean Development Mechanism and Mitigation Strategies -- 10.The deadlock of the Clean Development Mechanism: caught between sustainability, environmental integrity and economic efficiency / Christina Voigt -- 11.Beautifying Africa for the Clean Development Mechanism: legal and institutional issues considered / Damilola S. Olawuyi -- 12.Policy and legal dimensions of CDM projects in the forestry sector: implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Uganda / Emmanuel B. Kasimbazi -- 13.Brazilian policy on biodiesels: a sound means of mitigating climate change? / Carolina Dutra -- pt. 4 Climate Policy Bridging the North and South --

Contents note continued: 14.Improving citizen responsibility in the North and its consequences for the South: voluntary carbon offsets and government involvement / Marjan Teeters -- 15.Climate and trade in a divided world: can measures adopted in the North end up shaping climate change legislative frameworks in the South? / Francesco Sindico -- 16.Climate change in the European Union development cooperation policy / Sandrine Maljean-Dubois.
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