Global Environmental Change and Innovation in International Law
Loi et justice
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Résumé
The challenges to global order posed by rapid environmental change are increasingly recognized as defining features of our time In this groundbreaking work the concept of innovation is deployed to explore normative and institutional responses in international law… to such environmental change by addressing two fundamental themes first whether law can foresee prevent and adapt to environmental transformations and second whether international legal responses to social economic and technological innovation can appropriately reflect the evolving needs of contemporary societies at national and international scales Using a range of case studies the contributions to this collection track innovation - descriptively normatively and as a process in and of itself - to explain international environmental law s functionality in the Anthropocene This book should be read by anyone interested in the critical intersection of environmental and international law