The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book transversally cuts through different disciplines offering an outline of a phenomenon that is too often left to specific and sectorial insights.

The volume is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the main concepts of the book: climate change and sustainability, wellbeing, and mitigation and adaptation. The second part presents the scientific understanding of climate change and explores some of the more pressing issues driving policy development, such as the melting of the glaciers and the impact on coastal areas. The third part discusses significant experiences in the environmental policies both in the European Union and in the United States of America. The last section explains possible approaches to climate change, by exploring the legal and economic aspects of both adversarial and more lenient approaches towards a more sustainable world. It faces four main issues in the economic and juridical context: consumer behaviors, climate litigations, environmental litigations and the alternative forms of dispute resolution on environmental matters, with particular regard to environmental mediation.

Offering a new vision of sustainable policies, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, resource economics, environmental law, sustainable development, and public administration, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in related areas.

Discusses scientific, juridical, and economic aspects of climate change mitigation and adaptation Covers consumer behaviors, climate litigations, environmental litigations and dispute resolution Pinpoints best practices, procedures, and solutions for practitioners and policymakers

Autorentext

Sara Valaguzza is Full Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Milan (Italy), where she teaches Administrative and Environmental law, Green Procurement and Public-Private Partnership for Sustainable Development. She is Scientific Director of the Center of Construction Law & Management (CCLM), founding member and President of the European Association of Public-Private Partnership (EAPPP), an Academic Member of the Plan Procurement Law Academic Network (PLAN), and former Board Member of the UNIMI Foundation. She is a well-established practitioner in the field of administrative law. She is author of more than 50 scientific publications, both in Italian and English, and panellist in numerous national and international conferences.

Mark Alan Hughes is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design and founding faculty director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy (US). He is also a faculty fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, a senior fellow of the Wharton School's Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership, and a distinguished scholar in residence at Penn's Fox Leadership Program.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. T he Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability.- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia.- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues.- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and Precious Witnesses of Climate Change.- 6. Rural Revival and Coastal Areas: Risks and Opportunities.- 7. Climate Change: from Science to Policies, Back and Forward.- 8. The EU Perspective from Setbacks to Success: Tackling Climate Change from Copenhagen to the Green Deal and the Next Generation EU.- 9. Carbon Pricing from the Origin to the European Green Deal.- 10. Technology Innovation in the Energy Sector and Climate Change: the Role of Governments and Policies.- 11. How Emerging Technologies are Finally Matching the Policy Leverage of Cities with their Political Ambitions.- 12. Sustainable Transportation.- 13. From Green to Social Procurement.- 14. Climate, Sustainability, and Waste : European Union & United States Regulatory Approaches Compared.- 15. Construction Industry and Sustainability.- 16. Impact Climate Change in Agriculture: Adaptation and Mitigation Options.- 17. Climate Change and Consumer Behavior.- 18. Climate Change Litigation : Losing the Political Dimension of Sustainable Development.- 19. The Judicial Review of Administrative Decisions with Environmental Consequences.- 20. fcarpinetiMediation in Environmental Disputes. ****