Are you a social scientist or an international law scholar wanting to know more about L&D? This website is the right place for you! In our Repository you will find a selection of key publications focusing on L&D from a socio-legal perspective.

2020

Broberg, M. (2020). “Interpreting the UNFCCC’s provisions on ‘mitigation’ and ‘adaptation’ in light of the Paris Agreement’s provision on ‘loss and damage’”, Climate Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2020.1745744

Newell, P. & Taylor, O. (2020): “Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective”, Globalizations, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2020.1726127

Pill, M. (2020). “Planned Relocation from the Impacts of Climate Change in Small Island Developing States: The Intersection Between Adaptation and Loss and Damage”, In: Leal Filho W. (eds): Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Climate Change Management. Springer, Cham, pp. 129-149, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40552-6_7

2019

Calliari, E., Surminski, S., & Mysiak, J. (2019). “The Politics of (and Behind) the UNFCCC’s Loss and Damage Mechanism”, Springer, Cham, pp. 155–178, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_6

McNamara, K. E., & Jackson, G. (2019). “Loss and damage: A review of the literature and directions for future research”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(2), e564. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.564

Mechler, R., Calliari, E., Bouwer, L. M., Schinko, T., Surminski, S., Linnerooth-Bayer et al. (2019). “Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions”, Springer, Cham, pp. 3–37, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_1

Pekkarinen, V., Toussaint, P., & van Asselt, H. (2019). “Loss and Damage after Paris: Moving Beyond Rhetoric”, Carbon & Climate Law Review, 13(1), pp. 31–49, https://doi.org/10.21552/cclr/2019/1/6

Roberts, E., & Pelling, M. (2019). “Loss and damage: An opportunity for transformation?”, Climate Policy, pp. 1-14, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1680336

Setzer, J., & Vanhala, L. C. (2019). “Climate change litigation: A review of research on courts and litigants in climate governance”, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(3), pp. 1–19, https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.580

Tschakert, P., Ellis, N.R., Anderson, C., Kelly, A., & Obeng, J. (2019). “One Thousand Ways to Experience Loss: A Systematic Analysis of Climate-Related Intangible Harm from around the World”, Global Environmental Change, 55, pp. 58–72, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.11.006

Wewerinke-Singh, M., & Salili, D. H. (2019). Between Negotiations And Litigation: Vanuatu’s Perspective On Loss and Damage From Climate Change, Climate Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2019.1623166

2018

Benjamin, L., Thomas, A., & Haynes, R. (2018). “An ‘Islands’ COP’? Loss and Damage at COP23”, Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law, 27(3), pp. 332-340, https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12255

Emmerling, J. (2018). “Sharing of Climate Risks across World Regions.” Climate Change Economics, 9, 9(3),1850007, https://doi.org/10.1142/s2010007818500070

Gsottbauer, E., Gampfer, R., Bernold, E. & Delas, A.M., (2018). “Broadening the Scope of Loss and Damage to Legal Liability: An Experiment.” Climate Policy, 18(5), pp. 600-611, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2017.1317628.

Leal Filho, W. & Johanna Nalau. (2018). “Limits to Climate Change Adaptation”, edited by Walter Leal Filho and Johanna Nalau. Climate Change Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64599-5

Gewirtzman, J., Natson, S., Richards, J.-A., Hoffmeister, V., Durand, A., Weikmans, R. et al.. (2018). “Financing loss and damage: reviewing options under the Warsaw International Mechanism”, Climate Policy, 18(8), pp. 1076–1086, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2018.1450724

McNamara, K. E., Bronen, R., Fernando, N., & Klepp, S. (2018). “The Complex Decision-Making of Climate-Induced Relocation: Adaptation and Loss and Damage”, Climate Policy, 18(1), pp. 111-117, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1248886.

Roberts, E., & Pelling, M. (2018). “Climate change-related loss and damage: translating the global policy agenda for national policy processes”, Climate and Development, 10(1), pp. 4–17, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2016.1184608

Serdeczny, O.M., Bauer, S., & Huq, S. (2018), “Non-Economic Losses from Climate Change: Opportunities for Policy-Oriented Research”, Climate and Development, 10(2), pp. 97–101, https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2017.1372268

Thomas, A., & Benjamin, L. (2018), “Management of loss and damage in small island developing states: implications for a 1.5 °C or warmer world”, Regional Environmental Change, 18(8), pp. 2369-2378, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-017-1184-7

Toussaint, P. (2018). “Voices unheard – affected communities and the climate negotiations on loss and damage”. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3(5–6), pp. 765–784, https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1597640

2017

Boyd, E., James, R.A., Jones, R.G., Young, H.R., & Otto, F. (2017). “A Typology of Loss and Damage Perspectives.” Nature Climate Change, 7, pp. 723–729, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3389

Geest, K. Van Der, & Schindler, M. (2017). “Handbook for Assessing Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Communities.” Bonn. Available at: http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6032/Online_No_21_Handbook_180430.pdf

Lees, E. (2017). “Responsibility and Liability for Climate Loss and Damage after Paris.” Climate Policy, 17(1), pp. 59–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2016.1197095

Lyster, R. (2017). “Climate Justice, Adaptation and the Paris Agreement: A Recipe for Disasters?”, Environmental Politics, 26(3), pp. 438-458, https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1287626.

Mayer, B. (2017). “Migration in the Unfccc Workstream on Loss and Damage: An Assessment of Alternative Framings and Conceivable Responses”, Transnational Environmental Law, 6(1), pp. 107-29, https://doi.org/10.1017/s2047102516000078.

Page, E. A., & Heyward, C. (2017). “Compensating for Climate Change Loss and Damage.”, Political Studies, 65(2), pp. 356-372, https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321716647401.

Parker, H.R., Boyd, E., Cornforth, R.J., James, R., Otto,F., & Allen, M. (2017). “Stakeholder Perceptions of Event Attribution in the Loss and Damage Debate.” Climate Policy, 17(4), pp. 533–550, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2015.1124750

2016

Adelman, S. (2016). “Climate Justice, Loss and Damage and Compensation for Small Island Developing States”, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 7(1), pp. 32–53, https://doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2016.01.02

Barnett, J., Tschakert, P., Head, L., and Adger, W.N. (2016). “A Science of Loss.” Nature Climate Change, 6(11), pp. 976–978, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3140

Calliari, E. (2016). “Loss and damage: a critical discourse analysis of Parties’ positions in climate change negotiations”, Journal of Risk Research, pp. 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2016.1240706

Geest, Kees Van Der, and Markus Schindler. (2016). “Brief Communication: Loss and Damage from a Catastrophic Landslide in Nepal.” Hazards Earth Syst. Sci, 16, pp. 2347–50, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2347-2016

Mace, M. J., & Verheyen, R. (2016). “Loss , Damage and Responsibility after COP21 : All Options Open for the Paris Agreement”, Review of European Community & International Environmental Law, 25, pp. 197–214, https://doi.org/10.1111/reel.12172

Mechler, R., & Schinko, T. (2016). “Identifying the policy space for climate loss and damage”, Science, 354(6310), 290 LP-292, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aag2514

Ohdedar, B. (2016). “Loss and Damage from the Impacts of Climate Change: A Framework for Implementation.” Nordic Journal of International Law, 85 (1), pp. 1–36, https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-08501001

Vanhala, L., & Hestbaek, C. (2016). “Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations”, Global Environmental Politics, 16(4), pp. 111–129, https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_a_00379

2015

Geest, K. Van Der, & Warner, K. (2015). “Editorial: Loss and Damage from Climate Change: Emerging Perspectives.” International Journal of Global Warming 8 (2),pp. 133–140, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2015.071964

Roberts, E., & Andrei, S. (2015). “The rising tide: migration as a response to loss and Damage from sea level rise in vulnerable communities”, International Journal of Global Warming, 8(2), pp. 258-273, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2015.071965

Roberts, E., Andrei, S., Huq, S., & Flint, L. (2015). “Resilience Synergies in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.” Nature Climate Change, 5(12), pp.1024–25. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2776

Verheyen, R. (2015). “Loss and damage due to climate change : attribution and causation – where climate science and law meet”, International Journal of Global Warming, 8(2), pp. 158–169. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2015.071968

Wallimann-Helmer, I. (2015). “Justice for climate loss and damage”, Climatic Change, 133(3), pp. 469–480, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-015-1483-2

2014

James, R., Otto, F., Parker, H., Boyd, E., Cornforth, R., Mitchell, D. & Allen, M. (2014). “Characterizing Loss and Damage from Climate Change”, Nature Climate Change 4 (11), pp. 938–939, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2411

Mayer, B. (2014). “Whose ‘Loss and Damage’? In Defence of the Agency of Beneficiary States.” Climate Law 4 (3–4), pp. 267–300, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2493643

2013

Huq, S., Roberts, E., & Fenton, A. (2013). “Loss and damage”, Nature Climate Change, 3, 947, https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2026