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

Contributor(s): Humphreys, Stephen, 1971-.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010Description: xx, 348 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521762762; 0521762766.Subject(s): Human rights | Climatic changes -- Law and legislation | Global warming -- Law and legislation | Climatic changes -- Political aspects -- Developing countriesDDC classification: 320.5 Other classification: 86.81 Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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