The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished
international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and
economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes
imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book
transversally cuts through different disciplines offering an outline of
a phenomenon that is too often left to specific and sectorial insights.
The volume is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the
main concepts of the book: climate change and sustainability, wellbeing,
and mitigation and adaptation. The second part presents the scientific
understanding of climate change and explores some of the more pressing
issues driving policy development, such as the melting of the glaciers
and the impact on coastal areas. The third part discusses significant
experiences in the environmental policies both in the European Union and
in the United States of America. The last section explains possible
approaches to climate change, by exploring the legal and economic
aspects of both adversarial and more lenient approaches towards a more
sustainable world. It faces four main issues in the economic and
juridical context: consumer behaviors, climate litigations,
environmental litigations and the alternative forms of dispute
resolution on environmental matters, with particular regard to
environmental mediation.
Offering a new vision of sustainable policies, this volume will be of
interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, resource
economics, environmental law, sustainable development, and public
administration, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in
related areas.
