000			01990 a2200181 4500
020			_a9781032182155
082			_a344.0463 DES
100			_aDe Sousa, Dariel
245			_aLaw, Policy and Climate Change: The Regulation of Systemic Risks
260			_bRoutledge _c2023 _aNew York
300			_a269
520			_aFocusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe. Systemic risks are risks that threaten the systems upon which society depends, including ecosystems, social systems, financial systems, and systems of infrastructure. Such risks are typically characterised by inherent complexity, profound uncertainty, and overwhelming ambiguity. In combination, these features pose significant regulatory challenges for policy and law-makers. Examining how different types of systemic risks caused by climate change are being regulated in four different jurisdictions – the EU, the UK, the US and Australia – this book identifies deficiencies associated with regulating systemic risks using a traditional approach, based on a linear relationship between risk and regulation, which is widely used to regulate risk. The book advances a regulatory approach that is, instead, founded on the concept of "risk governance". This involves a structured yet flexible, holistic, interdisciplinary, and inclusive basis for responding to systemic risks; and it is, this book argues, a more effective basis for regulating systemic risks given their uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. This book will appeal to academics, policy law-makers, and practitioners working at the intersection of law and policy in the areas of regulation, risk management and climate change.
650			_aClimatic changes Law and legislation.
650			_aRisk Managment Law and legislation
650			_aEcosystem management Law and legislation
650			_aEnviornmental health.
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