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Title:

Human rights and climate change / edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xx, 348 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Human rights--Environmental aspects.
Climatic changes.
Internationaal recht.
Milieuvraagstuk.
Mensenrechten.
Klimaatveranderingen.

Other Authors:

Humphreys, Stephen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Conceiving justice : articulating common causes in distinct regimes / 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.

ISBN:

0521762766
9780521762762

OCLC:

(OCoLC)351331783

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)