Location
Room 108
Start Date
3-7-2012 10:30 AM
End Date
3-7-2012 12:00 PM
Description
Since the Stockholm and Rio Conferences (1972 e 1992), it is evident the effort of environmental law in promoting sustainable development. But in the complex scenario of climate change, that imposes a profound impact on human life and the entire biosphere, all measures that could help address its effects are essentials. In that period, disaster and energy law has also emerged to face similar challenges: risk management; prevention and compensation; access of vulnerable groups to natural resources and services; political resistance to create and execute sustainable policies and, above all, climate mitigation and adaptation. As those fields are closer, what lessons environmental law and governance could exchange with disaster and energy law? Based on comparative studies that recognize the need for a coordinated legal approach, from theoretical/practical perspective, this paper aims to analyze the synergy that can be explored from those linkages.
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Global Environmental Law Post-2012: Exploring some Lessons from Disaster and Energy Law
Room 108
Since the Stockholm and Rio Conferences (1972 e 1992), it is evident the effort of environmental law in promoting sustainable development. But in the complex scenario of climate change, that imposes a profound impact on human life and the entire biosphere, all measures that could help address its effects are essentials. In that period, disaster and energy law has also emerged to face similar challenges: risk management; prevention and compensation; access of vulnerable groups to natural resources and services; political resistance to create and execute sustainable policies and, above all, climate mitigation and adaptation. As those fields are closer, what lessons environmental law and governance could exchange with disaster and energy law? Based on comparative studies that recognize the need for a coordinated legal approach, from theoretical/practical perspective, this paper aims to analyze the synergy that can be explored from those linkages.