Criminological and Legal Consequences of Climate Change (Oñati International Series in Law and Society)

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. A novel feature of the book is the consideration given to the potential synergies between the two disciplinary foci, thus to encourage among legal scholars and criminologists not only an analysis of the consequences of climate change from these perspectives but to bring these fields together to provide a unique, inter-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which climate change does, or could, impact on our societies. Such an inter-disciplinary approach is necessary given that climate change is a multifaceted phenomenon and one which is intimately linked across disciplines. To study this topic from the point of view of a single social science discipline restricts our understanding of the societal consequences of climate change. It is hoped that this edited collection will identify emerging areas of concern, illuminate areas for further research and, most of all, encourage future academic discussion on this most critical of issues. Content: 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 Crime7. 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 Approach13. Situating Climate Change in (International) Law: A Triptych of Competing Narratives; Index Abstract: 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. A novel feature of the book is the consideration given to the potential synergies between the two disciplinary foci, thus to encourage among legal scholars and criminologists not only an analysis of the consequences of climate change from these perspectives but to bring these fields together to provide a unique, inte Introduction : exploring the legal and criminological consequences of climate change : an introduction / Stephen Farrall, Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French Where might we be headed? : some of the possible consequences of climate change for the criminological research agenda / Stephen Farrall International legal responses to the challenges of a lower carbon future : energy law for the twenty-first century / Catherine Redgwell UK climate change litigation : between hard and soft framing / Chris Hilson Climate change and paradoxical harm / Rob White Corporate governance and climate change / Sally Wheeler Climate change, environmental (in)security, conflict and crime / Nigel South Analysis of climate change from a human rights perspective / Tom Obokata Climate change and aid funding : an appraisal of recent developments / Anna La Chimia Climate change : effects on mobility of EU workers and the need to safeguard supplementary (occupational) pension rights / Konstantina Kalogeropoulou Defining pollution down : forestry, climate change and the dark figure of carbon emissions / Mark Halsey Personal carbon trading : towards sustainable consumption in an age of climate change and energy constraints / Peter Doran State responsibility for the adverse impacts of climate change on individuals : assessing the potential for an interdisciplinary approach / Matthew Hall Situating climate change in (international) law : a triptych of competing narratives / Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French. This edited collection - the result of a 2010 international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain - explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community. A novel feature of the book is the consideration given to the potential synergies between the two disciplinary foci, thus to encourage among legal scholars and criminologists not only an analysis of the consequences of climate change from these perspectives, but to bring these fields together to provide a unique, Ëœinter-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which climate change does, or could, impact our societies. Such an inter-disciplinary approach is necessary given that climate change is a multifaceted phenomenon and one which is intimately linked across disciplines. To study this topic from the point of view of a single discipline restricts the understanding of the concerns of climate change. This book will identify emerging areas of concern, illuminate areas for further research and, most of all, encourage future academic discussion on this most critical of issues. (Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society) This edited collection, the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain in 2010, explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community.