Global Environmental Change and Innovation in International Law

Neil Craik, Cameron S. G. Jefferies, Sara L. Seck, Tim Stephens

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781108423441
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108534574
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Environmental Law
• Index: Law

The challenges to global order posed by rapid environmental change are increasingly recognized as defining features of our time. In this groundbreaking work, the concept of innovation is deployed to explore normative and institutional responses in international law to such environmental change by addressing two fundamental themes: first, whether law can foresee, prevent, and adapt to environmental transformations; and second, whether international legal responses to social, economic, and technological innovation can appropriately reflect the evolving needs of contemporary societies at national and international scales. Using a range of case studies, the contributions to this collection track innovation - descriptively, normatively, and as a process in and of itself - to explain international environmental law's functionality in the Anthropocene. This book should be read by anyone interested in the critical intersection of environmental and international law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Imprints Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 International Law, Innovation, and Environmental Change in the Anthropocene
• PART I. Innovation in Legal Responses to Normative Change
• PART IIA. Innovative Legal Responses to the Consequences of Physical Change: Ecosystem Impacts
• PART IIB. Innovative Legal Responses to the Consequences of Physical Change: Human Rights Impact
• PART III. International Law Responses to Technological Innovation
• PART IV. Innovation to Address Governance Challenges in Intersecting Regimes
• PART V. Conclusions
• Index