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2014

Selected Works

Environmental Law

Climate Change

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Climate-Induced Sea Level Rise And Sustainable Coastal Management: The Influence Of Existing Policy Frameworks On Risk Perception, Chad J. Mcguire Nov 2014

Climate-Induced Sea Level Rise And Sustainable Coastal Management: The Influence Of Existing Policy Frameworks On Risk Perception, Chad J. Mcguire

Chad J McGuire

This article looks at the role of existing government policies on perceptions of risk and the impact they have on developing forward-looking sustainable policy instruments. Coastal flood insurance policy in the United States is examined as a way of exploring the relationship between policy instruments and risk perception. Insights include the importance of understanding the role of community risk perception in policy development, as well as the role of historical and existing policies in influencing community risk perception.

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Losing The Message: Some Policy Implications Of Anthropocentric Indirect Arguments For Environmental Protection, Chad J. Mcguire Sep 2014

Losing The Message: Some Policy Implications Of Anthropocentric Indirect Arguments For Environmental Protection, Chad J. Mcguire

Chad J McGuire

The value of anthropocentric indirect arguments (AIAs), as stated by Elliott (2014), is to focus on non-environmental benefits that derive from actions or policies that also benefit the environment. The key difference with these indirect arguments—from more direct anthropocentric arguments—is they focus on human benefits unrelated to the environment. So, for example, less coal burning power plants means less respiratory illness and higher worker productivity. The air is cleaner, but rather than clean air being the goal in arguing for less coal burning power plants, healthier people is the goal. Or as Elliott notes, clean energy can create jobs, and …

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Argentine Legislation And Climate Change - Legislación Argentina Y Cambio Climático, Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco Jul 2014

Argentine Legislation And Climate Change - Legislación Argentina Y Cambio Climático, Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco

Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco

This presentation was exposed in two different events, in preparation for de COP 2014 in Lima. First how panelist in "Encuentro de Cambio Climatico", organized by Ministerio de Tierras Ambiente y Recursos Naturales of Mendoza's Estate. Later in the EFICI (III Congreso de Educación en Ciencia Empírica en Facultades de Ingeniería) in UTN (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Regional Cuyo)

The objective this dissertation is diffusion and knowledge the argentinian legislation on climate change.

And evaluate domestic legislation by criteria Globe International Institute

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Key Change: The Role Of The Creative Industries In Climate Change Action, Tim Hollo Jun 2014

Key Change: The Role Of The Creative Industries In Climate Change Action, Tim Hollo

Matthew Rimmer

The role of the creative industries – arts and artists – in helping to drive the changes in laws and behaviours that are necessary to tackle climate change, while not superficially obvious, is a deep one. Arts and artists of all kinds, as cultural practitioners, have been closely entwined with social change and social control since time immemorial, in large part because they help shape our understanding of the world, framing ideas, prefiguring change, and opening hearts and minds to new ways of thinking. They have played a major role in campaigns for law reform on many issues, and climate …

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