Grear, Anna; Gearty, Conor --- "Choosing a Future" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) [2014] ELECD 490

Editor(s): Grear, Anna; Gearty, Conor

Title: Choosing a Future

Sub-title: The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change

Topics: Climate Change; Environmental Law; Human Rights; Law and Society; Environmental Politics and Policy

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 27 June 2014

Number of pages: 160

ISBN (hard cover): 9781783477234

EISBN: 9781784711900

Abstract/Description:

The issue is no longer whether climate change is happening; it is rather what we should now be doing about it. Drawing together key thinkers and policy experts, this unique volume – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - engages with the human dimensions of climate change, offering a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the challenging relationship between law and society in a time of climate crisis. The result is an imaginative, well-informed and provocative collection of contemporary engagements with the greatest challenge of the age, concerned not only to understand the current crisis but to offer perspectives on how it can be addressed. At the heart of this volume is the conviction that change is urgent, possible and morally imperative.