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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791351603321

Titolo

Human rights and climate change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-511-84806-4

1-107-20820-3

1-282-63730-4

9786612637308

0-511-76914-8

0-511-76998-9

0-511-76691-2

0-511-76552-5

0-511-76830-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Classificazione

86.81

Altri autori (Persone)

HumphreysStephen

Disciplina

341.48

Soggetti

Human rights

Climatic changes - Law and legislation

Global warming - Law and legislation

Climatic changes - Political aspects - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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