Departing from the complex reality of cities and intending to address existing vulnerabilities from a legal perspective, this book aims to suggest the implementation of new legal frameworks which, through more adaptive mechanisms of law, can allow the realization of justice for socio-ecological resilience. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for today's Environmental Law. Within this reality, the rapid growth of urban spaces, where most of the world's population lives, has resulted in the creation of more inequalities among social communities. The complexity of different social and ecological systems, growing environmental instability, and climate uncertainty urge for a need to find solutions to a more resilient future. In order to face this background, Public Law has now the opportunity to play a catalyst role in improving the environmental quality and life of urban communities. Nevertheless, environmental rights enshrined in most constitutions do not demonstrate to be sufficient for an effective protection of social-ecological systems and thus for the enhancement of their resilience.

Making Environmental Rights More Effective and Just An approach on the needed adaptability of Environmental Law and Rights Groundbreaking approach to Environmental Rights and Justice

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Tiago de Melo Cartaxo is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of Exeter, where he has founded the Exeter Centre for Environmental Law and is Associate Director of the Environment and Sustainability Institute. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental rights, climate and resilience justice, and adaptive regulatory frameworks. Previously, Tiago was an invited professor in Environmental Law and Administrative Law at NOVA School of Law Lisbon, where he was awarded a European PhD in Law.

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Chapter 1 Introduction: uncertainty, vulnerabilities, and inequalities in cities.- Chapter 2 The environment in the city and social-ecological uncertainty.- Chapter 3 Frameworks of environmental rights.- Chapter 4 Environmental rights for resilience justice.- Chapter 5 Adaptive law for resilience justice.- Chapter 6 An adaptive framework for resilience justice.- Chapter 7 Conclusions and future perspectives.