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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154821103321

Autore

Skillington Tracey

Titolo

Climate Justice and Human Rights / / by Tracey Skillington

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137022813

1137022817

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VII, 287 p.)

Disciplina

320

Soggetti

Comparative government

Globalization

Human rights

Climatology

Environmental law

Comparative Politics

Human Rights

Climate Sciences

Environmental Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1.Introduction  -- 2. The Idea of Climate Justice  -- 3. Resource inequalities, domination and the struggle to reclaim democratic freedoms  -- 4. Climate Change and its security implications  -- 5. Climate Justice without freedom - Legal and political responses to climate change and forced migration  -- 6. On the rights of the peoples of dissappearing states  -- 7. What is common about 'our common future'? Maintaining the human rights status of water  -- 8. Conclusion - Towards a transnational order of climate justice.

Sommario/riassunto

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs



might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of procedures of natural resource management and problem resolution amongst self-determining communities. It looks at how increasing human vulnerability to climate destruction forms the basis of a new peoples-powered demand for greater climate justice, as well as a global movement for preventative action and reflexive societal learning.