Human Rights and Climate Change.

This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Humphreys, Stephen
Other Authors:	Robinson, Mary
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Human rights. Climatic changes > Law and legislation. Global warming > Law and legislation. Climatic changes > Political aspects > Developing countries. Climatic changes > Law and legislation Climatic changes > Political aspects Global warming > Law and legislation Human rights Internationaal recht. Milieuvraagstuk. Mensenrechten. Klimaatveranderingen. Developing countries
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Authors' Biographies; Acronyms; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction: human rights and climate change; Why the silence on human rights?; Rights, needs, development and the state; Rights language in the climate change debate to date; Human rights and climate change adaptation; The human rights dimensions of mitigation policies; Human rights and climate change at the confluence of law, science, ethics and policy; References; Part I Rights perspectives on global warming; 1 Competing claims: human rights and climate harms.
2 Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds3 Equitable utilization of the atmosphere: a rights-based approach to climate change?; 4 Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability; 5 Rethinking human rights: the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse; Part II Priorities, risks and inequities in global responses; 6 The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability: human rights and equity dimensions; 7 Forests, climate change.

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