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.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Call Number
K3240 .H8482 2010
ISBN
9780521762762
0521762766
0521762766
Description
xx, 348 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)351331783
Summary
This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.
Note
This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Authors' biographies
Foreword / Mary Robinson
Introduction.
Human rights and climate change / Stephen Humphreys
1
Pt. I
Rights perspectives on global warming
35
1.
Competing claims: human rights and climate harms / Stephen Humphreys
37
2.
Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds / Simon Caney
69
3.
Equitable utilization of the atmosphere: a rights-based approach to climate change? / Dinah Shelton
91
4.
Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability / Peter Newell
126
5.
Rethinking human rights: the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse / Sam Adelman
159
Pt. II
Priorities, risks and inequities in global responses
181
6.
The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability: human rights and equity dimensions / Philippe Cullet
183
7.
Forests, climate change and human rights: managing risks and trade-offs / Frances Seymour
207
8.
Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health / Paul Hunt Rajat Khosla
238
9.
Human rights and vulnerability to climate change / Jon Barnett
257
10.
Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality / John C. Mutter Kye Mesa Barnard
272
Conclusion
297
11.
Conceiving justice: articulating common causes in distinct regimes / Stephen Humphreys
299
Appendix.
Climate change impacts on human rights
320
Index
332