Climate Change Law

Creating and Sustaining Social and Economic Insecurity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12282985
AutoresAngela Williams (University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia)
Año2011
Volumen20
Número4
Páginas499-513
Fecha de publicación2011-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Legal Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0964663911414240
OpenAlexW2323175103
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas21

This article considers how climate change law, global politics, and governance structures facilitate and sustain economic and social insecurity. Climate change itself targets existing environmental and social vulnerabilities and creates additional pressures on communities already subject to vast degrees of inequity. However, the legal framework developed in response to climate change is increasingly causing concern regarding the extent to which it similarly sustains inequity and insecurity for those most vulnerable. Climate change displacement is considered as a case study scenario to highlight the difficulties faced in creating an adequate and effective legal response that acts to remedy existing insecurity, rather than further sustaining it. Both the way in which ineffectual climate change law fosters insecurity, and the extent to which law creates the structural conditions for insecurity, are examined

Climate change · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economics · Environmental law · Law and economics · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management