Human rights and climate change / edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson.
2010
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Title
Human rights and climate change / edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (xx, 348 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction: Human rights and climate change / Stephen Humphreys
Competing claims : human rights and climate harms / Stephen Humphreys
Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds / Simon Caney
Equitable utilization of the atmosphere : a rights-based approach to climate change? / Dinah Shelton
Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability / Peter Newell
Rethinking human rights : the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse / Sam Adelman
The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability : human rights and equity dimensions / Philippe Cullet
Forests, climate change and human rights : managing risks and trade-offs / Frances Seymour
Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health / Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla
Human rights and vulnerability to climate change / Jon Barnett
Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality / John C. Mutter and Kye Mesa Barnard
Conceiving justice : articulating common causes in distinct regimes / Stephen Humphreys.
Competing claims : human rights and climate harms / Stephen Humphreys
Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds / Simon Caney
Equitable utilization of the atmosphere : a rights-based approach to climate change? / Dinah Shelton
Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability / Peter Newell
Rethinking human rights : the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse / Sam Adelman
The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability : human rights and equity dimensions / Philippe Cullet
Forests, climate change and human rights : managing risks and trade-offs / Frances Seymour
Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health / Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla
Human rights and vulnerability to climate change / Jon Barnett
Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality / John C. Mutter and Kye Mesa Barnard
Conceiving justice : articulating common causes in distinct regimes / Stephen Humphreys.
Summary
As the effects of climate change continue to be felt, appreciation of its future transformational impact on numerous areas of public law and policy is set to grow. Among these, human rights concerns are particularly acute. They include forced mass migration, increased disease incidence and strain on healthcare systems, threatened food and water security, the disappearance and degradation of shelter, land, livelihoods and cultures, and the threat of conflict. This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change looks beyond potential impacts to examine the questions raised by climate change policies: accountability for extraterritorial harms; constructing reliable enforcement mechanisms; assessing redistributional outcomes; and allocating burdens, benefits, rights and duties among perpetrators and victims, both public and private. The book examines a range of so-far unexplored theoretical and practical concerns that international law and other scholars and policy-framers will find increasingly difficult to ignore.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511770722 ebook
9780521762762 (hardback)
9780521762762 (hardback)
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