Climate Change and the Voiceless

Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources
2. Revised Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-77757-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 362 Seiten

Abate identifies the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless-future generations, wildlife, and natural resources-and demonstrates how the law can evolve to protect their interests. An ideal resource for readers interested in how the law can mitigate the effects of climate change on those who stand to lose the most.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abate, Randall S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An anthropogenic problem that requires an ecocentric solution; 2. Climate change litigation in domestic courts and human rights commissions; 3. Protection of future generations; 4. Legal personhood for wildlife: US and foreign domestic judicial developments 5. Rights of nature: US and foreign domestic perspectives; 6. Proposal for enhanced stewardship and rights-based protections for the voiceless, Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Abate, Randall S.
Randall S. Abate has taught domestic and international environmental law courses at six US law schools and one university over the course of three decades. He also has delivered lectures on environmental and animal law in more than twenty countries on six continents. He has published six books and forty articles and book chapters on environmental and animal law topics.