Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law

Barriers and Opportunities

Research Handbooks in Climate Law series

Edited by Rosemary Lyster, Professor of Climate and Environmental Law, The University of Sydney Law School, Australia and Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Robert R.M. Verchick, Gauthier-St. Martin Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola University New Orleans, Senior Fellow in Disaster Resilience Leadership, Tulane University, US

Through assessing climate disaster law in relation to international, public, private and environmental law this Research Handbook considers the unique challenges, barriers and opportunities that climate disasters pose for law and policy. Scientific and empirical evidence suggests that the laws addressing natural disasters cannot be adequately applied to disasters that are caused by climate change. Featuring contributions from leading international experts, this Research Handbook will be a useful resource for those with an interest in environmental law and international policymaking.

随着国际社会努力减少工作ions to avoid the worst impacts of human induced climate change, climate disaster law is emerging as a new area of climate law that demands the attention of academics, policymakers and practicing lawyers alike. This book offers critical insights on the key climate issues we will have to contend with in years to come; the scale of which will largely depend on our collective effort to mitigate those issues today!’
– Meinhard Doelle, Dalhousie University, Canada