The comparative politics of courts and climate change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4789602
AutoresLisa Vanhala (0000-0003-4886-0061, University College London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Volumen22
Número3
Páginas447-474
Fecha de publicación2013-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644016.2013.765686
OpenAlexW2125044689
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias 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