Climate change and law: which legal approach should be followed in dealing with the problem of sustainable development?

Journal title ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Author/s Fabrizio Fracchia
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2010/1
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 67-82 File size 589 KB
DOI 10.3280/EFE2010-001006
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The article deals with the methodological approach for studying environmental problems from a legal point of view, with specific relation to climate change and sustainable development. It outlines the need for using ethics and, after a brief overview of ethical principles and theories which might be used by legal science, it emphasizes the importance of "respecting others" and suggests that aretaic models should be usefully adopted also by law.

Keywords: Climate change, law, methodology, environment, ethics

Jel codes: K32

Fabrizio Fracchia, Climate change e diritto: alla ricerca del corretto approccio metodologico del giurista di fronte ai problemi dello sviluppo sostenibile in "ECONOMICS AND POLICY OF ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT" 1/2010, pp 67-82, DOI: 10.3280/EFE2010-001006