Climate Change Law
Creating and Sustaining Social and Economic Insecurity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12282985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Williams (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 499-513 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0964663911414240 |
| OpenAlex | W2323175103 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
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
Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change
The Economics of Climate Change
Is the global carbon market working?
Migration and Climate Change
Disaster mitigation
Preparing for a Warmer World
Survival Migration
Vulnerability to environmental hazards
Redefining Security
Turning the Tide
A recurring anarchy? The emergence of climate change as a threat to international peace and security
Climate change, human security and violent conflict
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |