Climate Change and International Intervention
Examining the Implications of Donor Based Organisations and Ecological Service Provisions
Investigators:
| Professor Lee Godden | Melbourne Law School |
| Associate Professor Jon Barnett: | School of Land Environment, University of Melbourne |
| Professor Anne Orford | Melbourne Law School |
Summary
International concern relating to the adverse impacts of anthropogenic climate change has grown in the last 10 years fostering a re-evaluation in many areas of the economy, the environment and public policy. Such trends have lead to major changes in the International legal and policy landscape with direct outcomes for environmental and natural resource law and governance. The impacts of anthropogenic climate change will stem far beyond the traditional environmental and economic parameters to include adverse outcomes for local community livelihoods and inter generational equity. As with issues of climate change impacts, responding to climate change (i.e mitigation and adaptation strategies) are also a matter of equity, sustainability and justice.
The research project will contribute to the knowledge relating to the interaction between climate change and issues of social equity and justice at a global level. It will build on the work already undertaken by researchers within the SJI on climate change and equity. The research will also make a contribution to the practical arena of how humanitarian aid and development agendas are formulated and implemented.