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    Climate justice : a voice for the future / Teresa M. Thorp.

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    • Title:Climate justice : a voice for the future / Teresa M. Thorp.
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    • Author/Creator:Thorp, Teresa M., 1968- author.
    • Published/Created:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Climatic changes--Law and legislation.
    • Description:xxi, 439 pages ; 23 cm
    • Summary:"The adverse impacts of climate change (heat waves, extended drought, severe flooding and desertification) represent an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet. Climate Justice - a voice for our future - responds to human adversity by mobilizing climate justice as legal justice. A first principles approach to constitutionalize legal justice helps to legitimize and realize a unified, transparent, comprehensible, accessible and responsive process that applies to all. Part one examines and unifies parameters of climate justice within the legal system. Part two develops a constitutional response to systematic system failure (injustice). Thorp then shows how to use the model to launch a process to develop an agreement applicable to all and with legal force under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The book will interest philanthropists and all interested in the future of humanity. It will appeal to climate justice movements, NGO constituencies, environmental groups, human rights advocates, governments, negotiators, businesses, and other decision-makers"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-428) and index.
    • ISBN:9781137394637 (hardback)
      1137394633 (hardback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1.1. rationale for advancing action on climate change
      1.2. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
      1.3. Towards a legal outcome applicable to all
      1.4. Human dignity, human security and universal human rights
      1.5. Towards constitutional governance of the global commons
      1.6. Normative legitimacy and fulfilment
      1.7. Systematic governance failure
      1.8. Governing complex systems
      1.9. Normative consensus beyond the State
      1.10. Kaleidoscopic normativity
      1.11. Towards a new process/approach/theory/doctrine of global justice
      1.12. Ring-fencing the perimeters
      pt. I Unifying the Parameters of Climate Justice
      1. Scope of the Work
      1.1. Main purpose
      1.1.1. Governing legal complexity
      1.1.2. Framing climate change as a constitutional issue
      1.2. Fiduciary theory of governing the global commons
      1.2.1. On the proper motives of beneficiaries
      1.2.2. entrusted duty to protect humanity in the global commons
      1.3. Constitutionalism of international climate law
      1.3.1. Constitutionalism: Meaning and rationale
      1.3.2. Design aims
      1.4. Background to the inquiry
      1.4.1. Foundational studies
      1.4.2. Analytical philosophy and constitutionalism of legal principles
      1.5. Points at issue
      1.5.1. Limits of the inquiry
      1.5.2. Course of action
      2. Optimising Dynamic Normative Systems
      2.1. Introduction
      2.2. Secondary research - Literature and legal doctrine
      2.2.1. From relativism to congruity
      2.2.2. Gaps in normative analysis
      2.2.3. Towards a congruent "first principles" approach
      2.3. Traits and characteristics of "jus gentium" principles
      2.3.1. On the universal nature of principles
      2.3.2. distinction between social justice and legal justice
      2.3.3. On conscience and mobilisation of the transcendent will
      2.4. Fundamental principles of general international law
      2.4.1. Position and function of general principles of international law
      2.4.2. Legal principles relating to climate change
      2.4.3. Towards a law of the global commons
      2.5. Universal environmental principles
      2.5.1. From Stockholm to Rio
      2.5.2. "Rio + 20"
      2.5.3. Survey of cross-cutting issues
      2.6. Regional environmental principles
      2.6.1. Europe
      2.6.2. Africa
      2.6.3. From regionalism to congruous collaborative pluralism
      2.7. Principles engaging non-State actors
      2.7.1. Society's elites and the establishment
      2.7.2. Corporate incentives
      2.7.3. Corporate citizenship
      2.8. normative system of international climate law
      2.8.1. Contemporary perspectives: Legal systems
      2.8.2. appropriateness of UNFCCC principles
      2.8.3. Optimising networked principles, rules and standards
      2.9. Conclusion
      3. What's Gone Wrong?
      3.1. Introduction
      3.2. Systemic or systematic failure?
      3.2.1. difference between normative systemic and systematic failure
      3.2.2. Limitations of systemic risk management
      3.2.3. Indications of systematic failure
      3.3. Indecision and absence of robust theory
      3.3.1. Individual transitive and invertible relations
      3.3.2. Collective welfare and consent
      3.3.3. From the individual preference to the legal "ought"
      3.4. No architecture to launch a process for 2015
      3.4.1. From inventorying norms to normative contextualisation
      3.4.2. Open systems interconnection protocol suite
      3.4.3. Avoiding harmful layering and harmful optimisation
      3.5. Research instruments
      3.5.1. Comparative research methods
      3.5.2. Case law method for empirical inquiry
      3.5.3. Case study method for normative inquiry
      3.6. Constitutional theory
      3.6.1. Legal hermeneutics replaces relativism
      3.6.2. Legal science and constitutional unification
      3.6.3. emerging philosophy of legal science
      3.7. Systematics, universal laws and the law of special regimes
      3.7.1. Systematics of third-generation rights and obligations
      3.7.2. How does the science of special regimes observe, contextualise and verify the right object?
      3.7.3. Alignment and orientation
      3.8. Prognosis
      3.8.1. Delimiting the scope of systematic review
      3.8.2. Establishment and effect
      3.8.3. Derivative legal products
      3.9. Conclusion
      pt. II Launching a Process Applicable to All 4 The Elements
      4.1. Introduction
      4.2. Preliminaries: An overview of the elements
      4.3. Legal science and analytical construction
      4.4. Legal hermeneutics and the science of the interpretative schema
      4.4.1. Treaty interpretation
      4.4.1.1. Cognitive interpretation differs from authentic interpretation
      4.4.1.2. Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
      4.4.1.3. Preparatory work is valuable but not necessarily an authentic interpretation
      4.4.1.4. Treaty interpretation and dispute resolution
      4.4.1.5. Teleological reasoning
      4.4.2. Entailment and constitutional unification
      4.4.2.1. meaning of entailment
      4.4.2.2. difference between ex post and ex ante interpretation
      4.4.2.3. Interpretation as a constant means of discovery and problem solving
      4.4.2.4. Interpretative differences between civil and common law
      4.4.2.5. Lex specialis norms depend on a relationship with international law but are also co-dependent
      4.4.2.6. On modelling dependent and independent variables
      4.4.2.7. On the differences between chance, interpretative correctness and validity
      4.4.2.8. Deduction of second- and nth-order legal norms
      4.4.2.9. On why notation helps to describe the complex norm
      4.4.2.10. Set logic, Venn diagrams and legal norms
      4.5. Linguistic interpretation, nomenclature and terminology
      4.5.1. Values and ethics
      4.5.2. Legal system
      4.5.3. nature of constitutional frameworks
      4.5.4. Authentication and the Competent Authority
      4.5.5. Transposition of values into legal norms
      4.5.6. Norms
      4.5.7. On the specificity of legal norms
      4.5.7.1. On the constitution of norms
      4.5.7.2. Specificity materiate
      Objective and subjective tests
      4.5.7.3. Hortatory "should" and obligatory "shall"
      4.5.7.4. Modality and the omission of an ought
      4.5.7.5. Modal specificity and range specificity
      4.5.7.6. "Ought to be" or "ought not to be"
      4.5.7.7. Specificity of a legal norm's sphere of validity
      4.5.7.8. Spatial specificity
      4.5.7.9. Temporal specificity
      4.5.7.10. Spatio-temporal specificity
      4.5.7.11. Specificity personae and the "norm addressee"
      4.5.7.12. Substantive versus procedural and objective versus subjective norms
      4.5.8. "binding" legal norm: Definition and application
      4.5.8.1. On the binding nature of things
      4.5.8.2. To what does a legal norm bind?
      4.5.8.3. On whom does a legal norm bind?
      4.5.8.4. How does a legal norm bind?
      4.5.8.5. Why does a UN Declaration not bind all the time?
      4.5.9. Testing legal principles and the error reduction checklist
      4.5.9.1. Root element
      4.5.9.2. Schema
      4.5.9.3. Normative "regression analysis" and the equation
      4.5.9.4. Nesting
      4.5.9.5. Parsing
      4.5.9.6. Specification statement
      4.5.9.7. Prologue
      4.5.10. policy question doctrine
      4.5.10.1. Differences between climate law and climate policy
      4.5.10.2. Constitutional reserves
      4.5.10.3. political question doctrine in national law
      4.5.10.4. policy question doctrine in international climate law
      4.5.10.5. Constitutional limits
      4.5.11. legal principle is a legal norm
      4.5.11.1. Legal principles of general international law
      4.5.11.2. Legal principles of special regimes
      4.5.12. Interactions between different legal norms
      4.5.12.1. Legal principles, legal rules and legal standards
      4.5.12.2. Legal principles and legal rules
      4.5.12.3. Legal principles and legal standards
      4.5.12.4. Derivative legal products
      4.5.12.5. Auxiliary legal principles
      4.6. Controversies and special topics
      4.6.1. How much do we owe future generations?
      4.6.2. How do we factor in intersecting special regimes?
      4.6.3. Why conflate legal philosophies?
      4.6.4. Why has justice not yet been found in positivism, judge-made law or natural law?
      4.6.5. Why does heterarchical dialectic not negate validity?
      4.7. Conclusion
      5. First Principles
      5.1. Introduction
      5.2. analytical proceeding to discover first-order principles
      5.3. Elements applicable to international climate law
      5.3.1. UNFCCC serves as the root element
      5.3.2. science of the interpretative climate schema
      5.3.3. Epistemic communities and the interpretation of legal principles
      5.4. "First" principles of international climate law
      5.4.1. Equity
      5.4.1.1. Article 3(1) UNFCCC
      Textual, contextual and teleological interpretation
      5.4.1.2. Supplementary means of interpretation
      5.4.2. Solidarity
      5.4.2.1. Article 3(2) UNFCCC
      Textual, contextual and teleological interpretation
      5.4.2.2. Supplementary means of interpretation
      5.4.3. Precaution
      5.4.3.1. Article 3(3) UNFCCC
      Textual, contextual and teleological interpretation
      5.4.3.2. Supplementary means of interpretation
      5.4.4. Sustainability
      5.4.4.1. Article 3(4) UNFCCC
      Textual, contextual and teleological interpretation
      5.4.4.2. Supplementary means of interpretation
      5.4.5. Good-neighbourliness
      5.4.5.1. Article 3(5) UNFCCC
      Textual, contextual and teleological interpretation
      5.4.5.2. Supplementary means of interpretation
      Contents note continued: 5.5. Initial schema: The legal principles of international climate law
      5.6. Controversies and special topics
      5.6.1. Disagreements about interactions between the legal principles of international climate law and general principles of international law
      5.6.2. Disagreements about climate change definitions and decisions
      5.6.3. Disagreements about the Kyoto Protocol
      5.6.4. Disagreements about outcomes and validity
      5.6.5. Disagreements about errors and inaccuracies
      5.7. Conclusion
      6. Auxiliary Principles
      6.1. Introduction
      6.2. analytical proceeding to derive second-order principles
      6.3. Guide on how to use the elements
      6.3.1. Constitutional unification and entailment
      6.3.2. Derivative legal products
      6.4. On using systematics to anchor legal principles
      6.4.1. Imputation
      6.4.2. Structural versus auxiliary lex specialis principles
      6.5. Auxiliary principles of international climate law
      6.5.1. Equity
      6.5.1.1. "Common but differentiated responsibilities" and "respective capabilities"
      6.5.1.2. Distinguishing characteristics
      6.5.2. Solidarity
      6.5.2.1. Supplement a deficit and reduce an unfair burden
      6.5.2.2. Distinguishing characteristics
      6.5.3. Precaution
      6.5.3.1. Adaptation and mitigation
      6.5.3.2. Distinguishing characteristics
      6.5.4. Sustainable development
      6.5.4.1. Appropriateness and integration
      6.5.4.2. Distinguishing characteristics
      6.5.5. Good-neighbourliness
      6.5.5.1. Cooperation and "no harm"
      6.5.5.2. Distinguishing characteristics
      6.6. Conclusion
      6.7. initial schema: Lex specialis principles of international climate law
      pt. III Reflections on the Constitutionalism of International Law
      7. General Observations and Conclusions
      7.1. Summary findings
      7.1.1. Rationale of a universal and unified approach to govern the global commons
      7.1.2. Characteristics of a universal and unified approach to govern the global commons
      7.1.3. Application of a universal and unified approach to govern the global commons
      7.2. Suggestions and recommendations
      7.2.1. General suggestions
      7.2.2. Recommendations for beneficiaries and fiduciaries
      7.2.3. Recommendations for future study
      7.3. Concluding remarks.
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