Climate Justice and Disaster Law

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

Rosemary Lyster (Author)

9781107107229, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 January 2016

436 pages
23.4 x 15.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.77 kg

'This new book by Professor Rosemary Lyster, one of the world's leading authorities on climate change law, significantly advances our understanding … She deftly brings together climate change law and disaster law - two fields with different conceptual foundations and time frames - and shows how they can and must operate together. She does so using an explicit philosophical framework that gives a structure to her argument that goes well beyond merely tactical considerations. The balance of this century - and, many of us fear, far beyond - will be dominated by disasters that are created or worsened by climate change, and a thorough understanding of the current legal tools to prepare, respond and cope, and a set of proposals for how to do all of this far better, as presented by Professor Lyster, could not be more important and timely.' Michael B. Gerrard, Andrew Sabin Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School

Climate disasters demand an integration of multilateral negotiations on climate change, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, human rights and human security. Via detailed examination of recent law and policy initiatives from around the world, and making use of a capability approach, Rosemary Lyster develops a unique approach to human and non-human climate justice and its application to all stages of a disaster: prevention; response, recovery and rebuilding; and compensation and risk transfer. She comprehensively analyses the complexities of climate science and their interfaces with the law- and policy-making processes, and also provides an in-depth analysis of multilateral climate change negotiations under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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.

Subject Areas: The environment [RN], Meteorology & climatology [RBP], Environment law [LNKJ], International environmental law [LBBP], Law [L]