Wold, Chris,

Climate change and the law / Chris Wold, Professor of Law & Director International Environmental Law Project, Lewis & Clark Law School; David Hunter, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law; Melissa Powers, Associate Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School. - Second edition. - xl, 1207, 4, 13 pages ; 27 cm xxxix, 215 pages ; 28 cm

Includes index.

The science of climate change -- Responding to climate change: mitigation -- Responding to climate change: adaptation -- The international response to climate change: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- The Kyoto protocol -- Beyond 2012 : building the post-Kyoto climate regime -- Implementing Kyoto through the carbon markets -- Land use and forestry -- The non-carbon and non-UNFCC agendas -- Climate change and the international trade regime -- Customary law, human rights and climate change -- U.S. climate policy -- Climate change regulation under the clean air act -- Climate change regulation under federal environmental statutes -- U.S. law and policy : energy -- U.S. law and policy : transportation -- Climate change in the courts : jurisdiction and common law litigation -- State and local responses to climate change -- Decarbonization in the anthropocene.

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Global warming--Law and legislation.
Global warming--Law and legislation--United States.

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