Law, Policy and Climate Change

The Regulation of Systemic Risks

Dariel De Sousa

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000683936
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Administrative Law
• Index: Law

Focusing on systemic risks caused by climate change, this book examines how these risks can be effectively regulated to ensure resilience and avoid catastrophe.

Systemic risks are risks that threaten the systems upon which society depends, including ecosystems, social systems, financial systems, and systems of infrastructure. Such risks are typically characterised by inherent complexity, profound uncertainty, and overwhelming ambiguity. In combination, these features pose significant regulatory challenges for policy and law-makers. Examining how different types of systemic risks caused by climate change are being regulated in four different jurisdictions – the EU, the UK, the US and Australia – this book identifies deficiencies associated with regulating systemic risks using a traditional approach, based on a linear relationship between risk and regulation, which is widely used to regulate risk. The book advances a regulatory approach that is, instead, founded on the concept of "risk governance". This involves a structured yet flexible, holistic, interdisciplinary and inclusive basis for responding to systemic risks; and it is, this book argues, a more effective basis for regulating systemic risks given their uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

This book will appeal to academics, policy and law-makers and practitioners working at the intersection of law and policy in the areas of regulation, risk management and climate change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Rise of Systemic Risks
• 3. Systemic Risks and Climate Change
• 4. The Challenges of Regulating Systemic Risks
• 5. A Traditional Approach to Regulating Risk
• 6. A Governance Approach to Regulating Risk
• 7. A New Paradigm for Regulating Systemic Risks
• 8. Regulating Climate Change Risks to EU Ecosystems
• 9. Regulating Climate Change Risks to the UK Health System
• 10. Regulating Climate Change Risks to the US Financial System
• 11. Regulating Climate Change Risks to Australian Infrastructure Systems
• 12. Conclusions and the Way Forward for Regulating Systemic Risks
• Index