Klaus Mathis is full professor for Public Law, Law of the Sustainable Economy and Philosophy of Law at the University of Lucerne. He is the co-founder of the Center for Law and Sustainability (CLS) and vice-president of the research commission of the University of Lucerne. Furthermore he is member of the evaluation commission "Ambizione" of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Bruce Huber teaches and conducts research in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, property, and energy law. His particular areas of expertise include energy regulation, public land and resource management, and the interaction between law and politics. His scholarship in these fields has been published in such journals as the California Law Review, the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and The Georgetown Law Journal.

Provides an economic analysis of recent developments in environmental law and policy in Europe and the America

Applies insights from neoclassical and behavioral economics to the study of energy law and policy

Features theoretical insights as well as empirical findings

Part I: Foundations.- 1. Sustainable Development and Regulation (Klaus Mathis).- 2. Temporal Spillovers (Bruce R. Huber).- 3. Environmental Law and Economics in Europe (Sebastian Heselhaus).- 4. Defending Environmental Economic Instruments against the Economists and their Opponents (Felix Ekardt and Jutta Wieding).- 5. Escaping the Epistemic Trap (Malte-Christian Gruber).-6. Pope Francis's and Singaporeans' Insights on Environment and Economics (Evelyne Fiechter-Widemann).- Part II: Sustainable Regulation.- 7. Behavioural Law & Economics and Sustainable Regulation (Philipp Hacker and Georgios Dimitropoulos).- 8. How to not Introduce Market-based Instruments into Environmental Regulation (Florian Stangl).- 9. Purchasing Energy-Efficient Appliances - To Incentivise or to Regulate? (Renate Schubert).- 10. Incentives Matter for Depolluting Rivers: The Case of the Ganga (RégisLanneau).- 11. Overcoming Nanomaterial Uncertainties: A Responsive Governance Framework (Julian Schenten, Martin Führ and Kilian Bizer).- 12. The Choice of Regulatory Instruments for a Circular Economy (EléonoreMaitre-Ekern).- 13. Governing Environmental Issues through Indicators (Myriam Senn).- Part III: Climate Change.- 14. Emission Trading Systems: A Coasean Answer to Climate Change?.- (Rolf H. Weber).- 15. Caught Between WTO Rules and Climate Change (Elena Cima).- 16. Behavioural and Evolutionary Approach to the Law and Economics of Cap-and-trade (RuteSaraiva).- 17. Climate Change, Environmental Damage and Migration: A Law and Economics Perspective (Philip C. Hanke).- Part IV: Tort and Criminal Law.- 18. Lender Liability for Environmental Damage - Some Preliminary Thoughts on Efficiency and Justification (Piotr Tereszkiewicz).- 19. Between Love Canal and Rada di Augusta: The Optimal Liability for Environmental Damage in American and European Law from the Perspective of Behavioural Law and Economics (Mariusz J. Golecki and JaroslawBoldowski).- 20. An Economic Analysis of Liability andCompensation for Harm from Large-scale Solar Climate Engineering Field Research (Jesse L. Reynolds).- 21. Environmental Criminal Law: A Vital Part of the Regulatory Framework (Konstantina Papathanasiou).