The comparative politics of courts and climate change

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4789602
AutoresLisa Vanhala (0000-0003-4886-0061, University College London, autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas447-474
Data de publicação2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644016.2013.765686
OpenAlexW2125044689
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas14

Disappointment with international efforts to find legal solutions to climate change has led to the emergence of a new generation of climate policy. This includes the emergence of courts as new ‘battlefields in climate fights’. Cross-national comparative analysis of the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia supplements research that has found that litigation plays an important governance gap-filling role in jurisdictions without comprehensive national-level climate change policies. The inductive research design identifies patterns in climate change litigation. The three countries illustrate the varieties of climate policies, and thus serve as a useful entry point for thinking more generally about the interplay between climate politics and legal mobilisation. To improve theoretical understandings of the role of courts in climate change politics, the range of litigants and the variety of cases brought to courts under the umbrella of the term ‘climate change litigation’ are identified

Climate change · Climate governance · Corporate governance · Disappointment · Economics · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Politics · Environmental law and policy · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies