The Public Law Paradoxes of Climate Emergency Declarations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4610053 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jocelyn Stacey (0000-0003-2892-0303, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 291-323 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2047102522000231 |
| OpenAlex | W4285098921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Climate emergency declarations occupy a legally ambiguous space between emergency measure and political rhetoric. Their uncertain status in public law provides a unique opportunity to illuminate latent assumptions about emergencies and how they are regulated in law. This article analyzes climate emergency declarations in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Aotearoa/New Zealand. It argues that these climate emergency declarations reflect back a set of paradoxes about the legal regulation of emergencies - paradoxes about defining the emergency, how time regulates and contains emergency power, and who gets to respond to the emergency and how. These paradoxes challenge long-held and over-simplified assumptions about emergencies and allow us to see the complex ways in which public law regulates emergencies - a necessity in a climate-disrupted world
Emergency management · Environmental law · Law and economics · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Environmental law and policy · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |