Climate change, sustainable development, and the IPCC's fifth assessment report / Robin Kundis Craig -- Creating legal pathways to a zero-carbon future / John C. Dernbach -- Thinking ecosystems, providing water: the water infrastructure imperative / Keith H. Hirokawa & Jonathan Rosenbloom -- Flexible conservation in uncertain times / Jessica Owley & David Takacs -- The local official and climate change / Stephen R. Miller -- Taming the super-wicked problem of waterfront hazard mitigation planning: the role of municipal communication strategies / Sarah J. Adams-Schoen -- Effective climate change decisionmaking: scientific consensus plus a hint of religion? / Cinnamon Pinon Carlarne -- Agnostic adaptation / Katrina Fischer Kuh -- Responding to climate-related harms: a role for the courts? / Shannon Roesler -- Promise and peril: national security and climate change / Inara Scott.
Summary:
"This book's chapters are illustrative of the overwhelming number of legal issues that climate change creates. Some of the contributions remain directly tied to the text of the IPCC's reports, while other focus on climate change more gnerally. Together, this volume contributes to a constructive and helpful discussion about how to address the climate change challenge."--Back cover.
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