Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and Comparative Experiences presents a dynamic and comprehensive collection of works from legal scholars around the world that delves into a relatively new frontier on legal aspects of climate change adaptation with focus on the ASEAN region, both at the regional level as well as at the national level in some ASEAN countries — such as Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand. Other countries not within ASEAN are also represented, such as Bangladesh, People's Republic of China, Sri Lanka, and the Republic of Taiwan. In doing so, it surveys one of the most important issues confronting developing countries today, and the challenges to building resilient societies. It is an essential source of reference for policy-makers, administrators, the private sector officials, scientists, academic scholars, climatologists, NGOs, and CSOs in ASEAN and the world.
Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword (29 KB)
Chapter 1: Asia-Pacific Islander Responses to Climate Change (130 KB)
Contents:
- Foreword by Tommy Koh, Ambassado-at-Large
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Keynote Address by Raman Letchumanan, formerly Head of the Environment Division, ASEAN Secretariat
- Theme I: Coastal Warming and Sea Level Rise:
- Asia-Pacific Islander Responses to Climate Change (Ilan Kelman)
- Managing Southeast Asian Ecosystems to Reduce Coastal Population Vulnerability Under Sea Level Rise (Daniel A Friess)
- Theme II: Legal Frameworks/Policies/Governance for Climate Change:
- Adaptive Water Governance: Lessons Learned from Implementing an Ecosystem-Approach in Mesoamerica (Alejandro Iza, Alexandra Müller, and Valentina Nozza)
- Legal and Policy Framework for Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Malaysia: A Reform Oriented Study (Abdul Haseeb Ansari)
- Policy and Legal Responses to Climate Change Adaptation in China: New Developments, New Challenges (Wang Xi and Gao Qi)
- Theme III: Key Future Impacts and Vulnerabilities:
- The Laws, Policies, and Institutions Relating to Climate Change in Thailand: Balancing between "Mitigation" and "Adaptation" (Kanongnij Sribuaiam)
- The Warsaw International Mechanism: Exploring the Structures and Functions to Address Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts (M Hafijul Islam Khan)
- Geoengineering: An ASEAN Position (Jolene Lin)
- Theme IV: Economic Interconnections:
- Assessing Green Jobs in Taiwan: A Tri-Pillar Approach (Fan Chien-Te and Hsu Yun-Hsiang)
- Sustaining Growth, Climate Change, and Meeting Environmental Obligations: What can ASEAN Governments Do? (Euston Quah and Tan Tsiat Siong)
- Theme V: Some Case Studies:
- Options for Adaption to Climate Change (Richard L Ottinger, Wang Pianpian, and Kristen M Motel)
- Dealing with Climate Migrants: A New Challenge for Developing Nations (Asanga Gunawansa)
- Climate Change, Migration, and International Law in Southeast Asia (Benoît Mayer)
- Achieving Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption: The Philippines (Amado S Tolentino, Jr.)
- Theme VI: Adaptation — Disaster Management, Risk Reduction and Humanitarian Assistance:
- The Legal Regime of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Management in Taiwan: Focus on the Major Amendment Following the Devastating Typhoon Morakot of 2009 (Gao Ming-Zhi Anton)
- Legal Options for Mainstreaming Climate Change Disaster Risk Reduction in Governance for Kenya (Robert Kibugi)
- Land Tenure Systems as a Challenge for Disaster Recovery: Adapting to Extreme Weather Events after Typhoon Haiyan (Daniel Fitzpatrick and Caroline Compton)
- The Role of ASEAN in Disaster Management: Legal Frameworks and Case Study of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda (Koh Kheng-Lian and Rose-Liza Eisma-Osorio)
Readership: Policy-makers, administrators, scientists, academic scholars, climatologists, NGOs and CSOs, and students in the fields of law and environmental science.
Dr KOH Kheng-Lian is Emeritus Professor of the Law Faculty, National University of Singapore. She was formerly Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL), and currently its Honorary Director, and Chair of the APCEL Specialist Group on Climate Change Adaptation. She was the IUCN–CEL Regional Vice-Chair for South and East Asia, and a member of its Steering Committee (1996–2004). She served as a Co-Director and resource person of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore/World Bank Institute seminars on Urban and Industrial Environmental Management in Singapore from 1999–2001, and the APCEL course Director from 2002–2014. She was ADB consultant for the project Enhancing Effective Regulation of Water Infrastructure in Singapore (2010).
She was a member of the ADB/APCEL/IUCN/UNEP project on Capacity Building for Environmental Law in the Asia-Pacific Region in 1997 and 1998, which conducted courses for environmental professors, and a co-writer with Craig, D, Robinson NA & Koh KL (eds.), Capacity Building for Environmental Law in the Asian and Pacific Region: Approaches and Resources (Manila: ADB, 2002 in two volumes). She is also the author of many publications and conference papers in environmental law, including ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy and Governance: Selected Documents (two volumes, 2009–2013). She was a member of the IBA (International Bar Association) Task Force which published Achieving Justice and Human Rights in an Era of Climate Disruption (2014) — http://www.ibanet.org/PresidentialTaskForceCCJHR2014.aspx. She has published books and articles on criminal law, commercial transactions, and straits in international navigation.
She has participated in numerous international environmental law conferences, and taught in the University of Mexico and University of Hawaii. She is in the international resource team of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law Programme Asia on "environmental law talks". She currently teaches the course on ASEAN Environmental Law, Policy and Governance. She served as a legal officer in the secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna, 1980–1986. She holds a PhD LLM (Singapore), Diplôme de Hautes Êtudes Internationales (HEI, University of Geneva), LLB Hons (University of Malaya in Singapore); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore); see website — http://law.nus.edu.sg/about_us/faculty/staff/profileview.asp?UserID=lawkohkl.
She is 2012 Laureate, Elizabeth Haub Prize in Environmental Law; see website — http://law.nus.edu.sg/alumni/lawlink/lawlinkJan2014/faculty2.html; and an Honoree in The Singapore Women's Hall of Fame, 2014 — http://www.swhf.sg/the-inductees/17-environment-conservation/138-koh-kheng-lian.
Dr Ilan KELMAN is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, England. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. His three main areas of focus include disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy, island sustainability involving safe and healthy communities in isolated locations, and risk education for health and disasters.
Dr Robert KIBUGI is a lecturer in law at the University of Nairobi's Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law (CASELAP) and School of Law. He previously taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, in Canada. His legal and policy research agenda focuses on, among other subjects, public participation in natural resource governance; land use law for sustainable development; climate change, including the role of law and policy in the adaptation and mitigation of climate change; energy law; water resources management and rights; and water and sanitation. Ongoing research includes examination of legal regulation of low-carbon investments in Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique with CIFOR and IDLO; and research on enhancing community benefits in large scale land acquisitions for investments, supported by IDRC. He holds an LLB and an LLM from the School of Law, University of Nairobi, and an LLD from the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. He is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Dr Kibugi has published various chapters and articles in peer-reviewed books and journals.
Atty. Rose-Liza Eisma-OSORIO is one of the few environmental lawyers in the Philippines. She is one of the founders and managing trustee of the Philippine Earth Justice Center, Inc. (PEJC) and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Philippine Environment (FPE). Her expertise is in the fields of governance, institutional development, monitoring and evaluation, environmental policy and advocacy, and technical legal support for natural resource conservation utilizing science-based tools and approaches. She co-authored numerous books and articles such as: A Sourcebook on Mainstreaming Gender into Coastal Resource Management in the Philippines, published in 2012; Critical Ingredients in Building and Sustaining Inter-local Cooperation, published in 2010; Integrated Coastal Management in Philippine Local Governance: Evolution and Benefits, published in 2006; and Legal Issues Affecting Sustainability of Integrated Coastal Management in the Philippines, published in the Siliman University Journal and in the Ocean and Coastal Management Journal.
She is presently the Project Advisor of the Post-Yolanda Ecosystem Rehabilitation of Kinatarkan Island in Bantayan, Cebu conducted by the Santo Nino de Cebu Augustinian Social Development Foundation. She was also an in-country researcher for the Target 14 Global Research Team, Global Initiative on Legal Preparedness for Achieving the Aichi Targets of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO). After graduating from the University of the Philippines-Diliman with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry degree, Atty. Eisma-Osorio earned her Bachelor of Laws at the Siliman University, Philippines and a Certificate of Attendance in Coastal Management at the University of Rhode Island, Coastal Resource Center, USA. Currently, she is a faculty member of the College of Law of University of Cebu, teaching environmental law, legal research and writing, and private international law, among others.
