International Environmental Law
The sources of international law arise from a number of origins and comprise both soft law (indicative but non-binding, as in the Hyogo Framework of Action fr resilience building and disaster reduction), and hard law (binding, as in the Montreal Protocol
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Krishna Rao Pinninti
Climate Change Loss and Damage Economic and Legal Foundations
SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
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Krishna Rao Pinninti
Climate Change Loss and Damage Economic and Legal Foundations
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Krishna Rao Pinninti Princeton, NJ USA
ISSN 2213-784X ISBN 978-3-642-39563-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-39564-2
ISSN 2213-7858 (electronic) ISBN 978-3-642-39564-2 (eBook)
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Preface
This Special Monograph is prepared with the purpose of laying down a few major foundations and guidelines in the current process of devising strategies, mechanisms, and providing resources for containing or mitigating loss and damage arising from sustained adverse impacts of climate change and climate variability. Whereas the UNFCCC and other entities have been preparing to offer groundwork to facilitate the processes at the international level, it is relevant to augment these efforts with additional insights. This is the attempt of this publication, with an approach of pragmatism and an objective specification of relevant frameworks for further actions. Developme
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