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Human rights and climate change / edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 348 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511769986
  • 0511769989
  • 9780511770722
  • 0511770723
  • 0511848064
  • 9780511848063
  • 1107208203
  • 9781107208209
  • 1282637304
  • 9781282637306
  • 9786612637308
  • 6612637307
  • 0511769148
  • 9780511769146
  • 0511766912
  • 9780511766916
  • 0511765525
  • 9780511765520
  • 0511768303
  • 9780511768309
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human rights and climate change.DDC classification:
  • 320.5 22
LOC classification:
  • K3240 .H8482 2010eb
Other classification:
  • 86.81
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change identifies future perspectives, concerns and dilemmas for law and policy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

English.

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