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This book will be of interest to students of transnational law, climate change law and policy, environmental policy, and urban policy. Written in an engaging manner, it offers novel insights on how cities are beginning to play a meaningful role in climate change law and transnational governance more broadly.

This book will be of interest to students of transnational law, climate change law and policy, environmental policy, and urban policy. Written in an engaging manner, it offers novel insights on how cities are beginning to play a meaningful role in climate change law and transnational governance more broadly.

The book is intended for scholars, practitioners, and students across a range of interests within the fields of law and environmental studies. It is essential reading for those looking for a comprehensive examination of the main norm that drives international environmental law, the principle of prevention of environmental harm.

Challenges prescriptive models of international negotiation and examines international negotiations from a novel, relational international law perspective. This work should be read by academics and practitioners of international law and negotiations, officials of international organizations, and those interested in international law and relations.

This volume addresses how combinations of public and private actors, and legislation and informal rules, can become smart mixes to regulate transboundary environmental harm. It will interest students and researchers of environmental law and regulation, as well as scholars of international law, instrument design, political science, and sociology.

This volume presents a dialogue on the relevance of multi-disciplinary research and offers a look at why science and technology cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding how multidisciplinary research and collaboration is essential to crafting good energy policy.

This volume presents a dialogue on the relevance of multi-disciplinary research and offers a look at why science and technology cannot alone meet the needs of energy policy making. This work should be read by anyone interested in understanding how multidisciplinary research and collaboration is essential to crafting good energy policy.

Dehm analyzes how the REDD+ scheme operates to reorganise social relations and establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, benefitting some actors while further marginalising others. This book is for scholars, students, practitioners, and anyone interested in international climate law and natural resource governance.

This book applies theories of energy market regulation to Central Asia - a region that faces considerable energy security challenges. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, the book examines how institutions constrain legal reforms. In addition, the geopolitics of energy in the region help explain limits to the role of energy law.

Examining how judges evaluate scientific knowledge when framing disputes, hearing evidence, conducting causal inquiry, and setting the standard of review, Sulyok provides a comparative analysis of environmental case-law across major international courts. This work also suggests reasoning styles with which judges can legitimately justify decisions.

Companies lie at the heart of the climate crisis and are both culpable for, and vulnerable to, its impacts. Rising social and investor concern about the escalating risks of climate change are changing public and investor expectations of businesses and, as a result, corporate approaches to climate change. Dominant corporate norms that put shareholders (and their wealth maximization) at the heart of company law are viewed by many as outdated and in need of reform. Companies and Climate Change analyzes these developments by assessing the regulation and pressures that impact energy companies in the UK, with lessons that apply worldwide. In this work, Lisa Benjamin shows how the Paris Agreement, climate and energy law in the EU and the UK, and transnational human rights and climate litigation, are regulatory and normative developments that illustrate how company law can and should act as a bridge to progressive corporate climate action.

In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy, Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the creation of new legal relations, including property rights and contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical analysis of international climate law and policy that offers insights into questions of political economy, power, and unequal authority.

This volume addresses how combinations of public and private actors, and legislation and informal rules, can become smart mixes to regulate transboundary environmental harm. It will interest students and researchers of environmental law and regulation, as well as scholars of international law, instrument design, political science, and sociology.

In Complexity Economics for Environmental Governance, Jean-Francois Mercure reframes environmental policy and provides a rigorous methodology necessary to tackle the complexity of environmental policy and the transition to sustainability. The book offers a detailed account of the deficiencies of environmental economics and then develops a theory of innovation and macroeconomics based on complexity theory. It also develops a new foundation for evidence-based policy-making using a Risk-Opportunity Analysis applied to the sustainability transition. This multidisciplinary work was developed in partnership with prominent natural scientists and economists as well as active policy-makers with the aim to revolutionize thinking in the face of the full complexity of the sustainability transition, and to show how it can best be governed to minimize its distributional impacts. The book should be read by academics and policy-makers seeking new ways to think about environmental policy-making.