From environmental rights to resilience justice innovative legal tools to face urban uncertainty Tiago de Melo Cartaxo

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Melo Cartaxo, Tiago, author.

Series:

Law and Criminology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham Springer 2026

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 22, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version de Melo Cartaxo, Tiago From Environmental Rights to Resilience Justice

ISBN:

9783032238405

3032238404

OCLC:

1597472020

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license