Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change - Challenges and Opportunities (Hardcover)

Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently. This book examines the link between climate change and human rights in a comprehensive manner. It looks at human rights approaches to climate change, including the jurisprudential bases for human rights and the environment, the theoretical framework governing human rights and the environment, and the different approaches to this including benchmarks. In addition to a discussion of human rights implications of international environmental law principles in the climate change regime, the book explores how the human rights framework can be used in relation to mitigation, adaption, and adjudication. Other chapters examine how vulnerable groups -women, indigenous peoples and climate "refugees" - would be disproportionately affected by climate change. The book then goes on to discuss a new category of people created by climate change, those who will be rendered stateless as a result of states disappearing and displaced by climate change, and whether human rights law can adequately address these emerging issues.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2016
Authors:	Sumudu Atapattu
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	348
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-72709-9
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
LSN:	0-415-72709-X
Barcode:	9780415727099

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