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Human rights approaches to climate change : challenges and opportunities /

"While there is a 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 potential catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently. This boo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Atapattu, Sumudu A.
Format: Printed Book
Published: NewYork Routledge 2016
Series:Routledge research in international environmental law
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • International legal framework governing climate change : a human rights assessment
  • Human rights approaches to environmental protection
  • Climate change and human rights : a justice issue?
  • International environmental law principles and climate change : a rights and justice assessment
  • Mitigation and adaptation through a human rights lens
  • Climate-related migration and "climate refugees"
  • Forests, REDD and indigenous peoples
  • Women, climate change and inequality
  • Small island states and their people
  • Extreme weather events, access to resources and conflict : implications for international peace and security
  • Adjudicating climate change and human rights law
  • Climate change and human rights : square pegs in round holes?