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Climate change, public health, and the law, edited by Michael Burger, Justin Gundlach

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Climate change, public health, and the law

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1054911478

edited by Michael Burger, Justin Gundlach

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Climate Change, Public Health, and the Law provides the first comprehensive explication of the dynamic interactions between climate change, public health law, and environmental law, both in the United States and internationally. Responding to climate change and achieving public health protections each require the coordination of the decisions and behavior of large numbers of people. However, they also involve interventions that risk compromising individual rights. The challenges involved in coordinating large-scale responses to public health threats and protecting against the invasion of rights, makes the law indispensable to both of these agendas. Written for the benefit of public health and environmental law professionals and policymakers in the United States and in the international public health sector, this volume focuses on the legal components of pursuing public health goals in the midst of a changing climate. It will help facilitate efforts to develop, improve, and carry out policy responses at the international, federal, state, and local levels. States and internationally. Responding to climate change and achieving public health protections each require the coordination of the decisions and behavior of large numbers of people. However, they also involve interventions that risk compromising individual rights. The challenges involved in coordinating large-scale responses to public health threats and protecting against the invasion of rights, makes the law indispensable to both of these agendas. Written for the benefit of public health and environmental law professionals and policymakers in the United States and in the international public health sector, this volume focuses on the legal components of pursuing public health goals in the midst of a changing climate. It will help facilitate efforts to develop, improve, and carry out policy responses at the international, federal, state, and local levels.--, Provided by Publisher

Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Part I The Context; 1 Introduction; 2 The Duty to Protect Public Health from Climate Change Impacts; 3 The Public Health Sector's Challenges and Responses; Part II Cross-Cutting Issues; 4 Government Speech and the First Amendment; 5 Disease Surveillance; 6 The Built Environment; Part III Impacts and Interventions; 7 Heat; 8 Oceans and Coasts; 9 Infectious Disease; 10 Food Systems; 11 Migration; Part IV Interplay with International & Domestic Environmental Law; 12 International Institutions and the Developing World; 13 How Existing Environmental Laws Respond to Climate Change and Its Mitigation; 14 Incorporating Public Health Assessments into Climate Change Action; Index