By Don Zillman, Catherine Redgwell, Yinka Omorogbe,

Description

• Explores topical controversies over alternative energy sources including nuclear power, and over sustainability and environmental concern versus energy supply in the developing world
• Regional, sectoral and technology-based analysis, and a wide variety of national perspectives demonstrate how the law can impede or advance the shift to a significantly different world energy picture
• Examines the roles of public international law and international legal bodies, regional legal structures and major international nongovernmental actors

The present energy economy, with its heavy dependence on fossil fuels, is not sustainable over the medium to long term for many interconnected reasons. Climate change is now recognized as posing a serious threat. Energy and resource decisions involving the carbon fuels therefore play a large role in this threat. Fossil fuel reserves may also be running short and many of the major reserves are in politically unstable parts of the world.

Yet citizens in nations with rapidly developing economies aspire to the benefits of the modern energy economy. China and India alone have 2.4 billion potential customers for cars, industries, and electrical services. Even so, more than half of the worlds citizens still lack access to energy. Decisions involving fossil fuels are therefore a significant part of the development equation.

This volume explains how the law can impede or advance the shift to a world energy picture significantly different from that which exists today.

It first examines the factors that create the problems of the present carbon economy, including environmental concerns and development goals. It then provides international and regional legal perspectives, examining public international law, regional legal structures, the responses of international legal bodies, and the role of major international nongovernmental actors. The book then moves on to explore sectoral perspectives including the variety of renewable energy sources, new carbon fuels, nuclear power, demand controls, and energy efficiency. Finally, the authors examine how particular States are, could, or should, be adapting legally to the challenges of moving beyond the carbon economy.

Readership: Lawyers, public policy-makers, and corporate analysts in the energy and natural resources sectors, and scholars in the fields of energy and environmental law, environmental management, development economics and sustainable development.

Authors, editors, and contributors

Don Zillman, President of the University of Maine at Presque Isle and Edward Godfrey Professor of Law, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Catherine Redgwell, Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Laws, University College London, Yinka Omorogbe, Head of the Department of Public and International Law, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, and Lila K. Barrera-Hernández, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Calgary, Canada Contributors:Catherine Redgwell: Professor of International Law and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Laws, University College London

Published Year: 2008 Format: Hard Back ISBN: 978-0-19-953269-8 Publisher: Oxford University Press No of Pages: 510 Our Price: £ 80.00 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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