Vanhala, L;
(2013)
The comparative politics of courts and climate change.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
, 22
(3)
447 - 474.
10.1080/09644016.2013.765686.
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Abstract
Disappointment with international efforts to find legal solutions to climate change has led to the emergence of a new generation of climate policy. This includes the emergence of courts as new ‘battlefields in climate fights’. Cross-national comparative analysis of the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia supplements research that has found that litigation plays an important governance gap-filling role in jurisdictions without comprehensive national-level climate change policies. The inductive research design identifies patterns in climate change litigation. The three countries illustrate the varieties of climate policies, and thus serve as a useful entry point for thinking more generally about the interplay between climate politics and legal mobilisation. To improve theoretical understandings of the role of courts in climate change politics, the range of litigants and the variety of cases brought to courts under the umbrella of the term ‘climate change litigation’ are identified.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The comparative politics of courts and climate change |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09644016.2013.765686 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2013.765686 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2013 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted. |
| Keywords: | courts, climate change, governance gap, legal mobilisation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1398970 |
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