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Fig. 8.1 First page of a flip-chart presentation from a group of NGO practitioners in Uganda who have been deliberating about lived experience and climate change 8.2 To What Extent Is It Desirable to Expand the Boundaries of Our Lived Experiences Beyond Prevailing Social Norms of Attention? The main reason for . . . Read more
Fig. 7.1 The frustration of communicating climate change to the public. (Cartoon by Jon Kudelka. Source http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/talking-about-climate-change-how-weve-failed-and-how-we-can-fix-it-180951070/?no-ist.) Thus in Moser and Dilling’s edited collection that draws from the United States experience, we find a concerted attempt to move beyond simply attempting to disseminate information and knowledge in traditional ways (Dilling and . . . Read more
Fig. 6.1 Pink Campion (Silene dioica) in flower 19 December 2014 after an unseasonally mild autumn and early winter in the United Kingdom. This plant grows wild in several locations, including by the side of the road in many rural areas, as photographed here. It is found throughout northern and central . . . Read more
Fig. 2.1 Multi-model ensemble mean of projected changes in December, January and February (DJF) and June, July and August (JJA) surface air temperature for the period 2016–2035 relative to 1986–2005 under RCP4.5 scenario (left panels). RCP4.5 refers to representative concentration pathway 4.5, one of four greenhouse gas atmospheric concentration trajectories that . . . Read more
Fig. 5.1 Resurrection of indigenous knowledge in Jaipur, India. This channels system reflects ancient knowledge of water conservation. The channels bring rainwater from the surrounding hills to Jaigarh Fort which was built circa fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. There they fill three underground tanks, capable of storing almost 30 million litres of . . . Read more
7 CONTRACTS The law of contracts defines those duties that individuals or organizations voluntarily assume, generally through promises. Contractual duties may arise in either of two general situations: under the doctrine of traditional contract or under the doctrine of detrimental reliance, also known as promissory estoppel.1 Contract law is generally . . . Read more
8 TORTS The law of torts defines certain duties that the law imposes upon persons in the absence of a contract. A tort is a violation of one of these duties. One who commits a tort is sometimes called a tortfeasor. I. THE NATURE OF TORT LAW No single principle . . . Read more
9 CONSTITUTIONAL LAW Constitutional law is the law defining those legal relationships, such as powers, rights, duties, privileges, and immunities, created by a constitution. In other words, it is the law governing the application of the provisions of a constitution. As the term is commonly used by most American lawyers, . . . Read more
10 CIVIL PROCEDURE Civil procedure is the law governing civil litigation in the courts. It prescribes the mechanisms by which parties obtain judicial determination of the rights and duties created by civil substantive law, such as contracts, torts, and constitutional law. Civil procedure has largely been codified. Congress, in Title . . . Read more
6 POLICY ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS, AND APPLICATION This chapter develops a systematic understanding of the manner in which lawyers analyze, synthesize, and apply policies in the legal reasoning process. In the first section, the way in which a rule can be analyzed as a compromise among various pairs of conflicting policies . . . Read more