This edited collection, the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain in 2010, explores the potential legal and criminological consequences of climate change, both domestically and for the international community.

Introduction: Exploring the Legal and Criminological Consequencesof Climate Change: An Introduction Stephen Farrall, Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French1. Where Might We Be Headed? Some of the Possible Consequences of Climate Change for the Criminological Research AgendaStephen Farrall2. International Legal Responses to the Challenges of a Lower Carbon Future: Energy Law for the Twenty-first Century Catherine Redgwell3. UK Climate Change Litigation: Between Hard and Soft Framing Chris Hilson4. Climate Change and Paradoxical Harm Rob White5. Corporate Governance and Climate Change Sally Wheeler6. Climate Change, Environmental (In)Security, Conflict and Crime Nigel South7. Analysis of Climate Change from a Human Rights Perspective Tom Obokata8. Climate Change and Aid Funding: An Appraisal of Recent Developments Anna La Chimia9. Climate Change: Effects on Mobility of EU Workers and the Need to Safeguard Supplementary (Occupational)Pension Rights Konstantina Kalogeropoulou10. Defining Pollution Down: Forestry, Climate Change and the Dark Figure of Carbon Emissions Mark Halsey11. Personal Carbon Trading: Towards Sustainable Consumption in an Age of Climate Change and Energy Constraints Peter Doran12. State Responsibility for the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on Individuals: Assessing the Potential for anInterdisciplinary Approach Matthew Hall13. Situating Climate Change in (International) Law: A Triptych of Competing Narratives Tawhida Ahmed and Duncan French

This book brings together legal scholars and criminologists to provide a unique, inter-disciplinary exploration of the ways in which climate change does, or could, impact on our societies.The edited collection is the result of an international seminar held at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain in 2010.The aim of the book is to identify emerging areas of concern, further illuminate areas for further research and, most of all, encourage future academic discussion on the most critical of issues.

Original research and theory on the relations between law, legal institutions and social processes.The volumes in this series are eclectic in their disciplines, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, but they all share a strong comparative emphasis. The volumes originate in workshops hosted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.Founding Series Editors: William L F Felstiner Eve Darian-Smith Editorial Board: Carlos Lugo, Hostos Law School, Puerto Rico Jacek Kurczewski, Warsaw University, Poland Marie-Claire Foblets, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Ulrike Schultz, Fern Universität, Germany