Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples offers the most comprehensive
resource for advancing our understanding of one of the least
coherently developed of climate change policy realms - legal
protection of vulnerable indigenous populations. The first part of
the book provides a tremendously useful background on the cultural,
policy, and legal context of indigenous peoples, with special
emphasis on developing general principles for climate change
mitigation and adaptation solutions. The remainder of the volume
then carefully and thoroughly works through how those general
principles play out for different regional indigenous populations
around the globe. All of the contributions to the volume are by
leading experts who bring their insights and innovative thinking to
bear on a truly complex subject. Whether as a novice s starting
point or expert's desktop reference, I cannot think of a more
useful resource for anyone interested in climate policy for
indigenous peoples.' - J.B. Ruhl, Vanderbilt University Law School,
USThis timely volume explores the ways in which indigenous peoples
across the world are challenged by climate change impacts, and
discusses the legal resources available to confront those
challenges. Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the
climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live
subsistence lifestyles that are severely disrupted by the effects
of climate change. Additionally, in many parts of the world,
domestic law is applied differently to indigenous peoples than it
is to their non-indigenous peers, further complicating the quest
for legal remedies. The contributors to this book bring a range of
expert legal perspectives to this complex discussion, offering both
a comprehensive explanation of climate change-related problems
faced by indigenous communities and a breakdown of various real
world attempts to devise workable legal solutions. Regions covered
include North and South America (Brazil, Canada, the US and the
Arctic), the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Tuvalu and the Federated States
of Micronesia), Australia and New Zealand, Asia (China and Nepal)
and Africa (Kenya). This comprehensive volume will appeal to
professors and students of environmental law, indigenous law and
international law, as well as practitioners and policymakers with
an interest in indigenous legal issues and environmental justice.
Contributors: R.S. Abate, D. Badrinarayana, K. Boom, M. Burkett,
J.M. Cha, E. Charles-Newton, L.A. Crippa, M. Davis, P. Dong, N.
Johnstone, P. Kameri-Mbote, P. Kebec, S. Krakoff, E.A. Kronk, J.-D.
Lavallee, J. Liu, A. Long, L.A. Miranda, C.Y. Mulalap, E. Nyukuri,
H. Osofsky, J.V. Royster, I.L. Stoyanova, V. Sutton, E.J. Techera,
S. Theriault, R. Tsosie, P. Van Tuyn, W. Yu
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