Human rights and climate change / 
 Human Rights & Climate Change 
edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson. 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2010. 
 - 1 online resource (xx, 348 pages) :  digital, PDF file(s). 
<br/><br/> Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 
<br/><br/> Human rights and climate change /  Competing claims : human rights and climate harms /  Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds /  Equitable utilization of the atmosphere : a rights-based approach to climate change? /  Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability /  Rethinking human rights : the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse /  The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability : human rights and equity dimensions /  Forests, climate change and human rights : managing risks and trade-offs /  Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health /  Human rights and vulnerability to climate change /  Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality /  Conceiving justice : articulating common causes in distinct regimes /  Stephen Humphreys --  Stephen Humphreys --  Simon Caney --  Dinah Shelton --  Peter Newell --  Sam Adelman --  Philippe Cullet --  Frances Seymour --  Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla --  Jon Barnett --  John C. Mutter and Kye Mesa Barnard --  Stephen Humphreys.  Introduction: 
<br/><br/> As the effects of climate change continue to be felt, appreciation of its future transformational impact on numerous areas of public law and policy is set to grow. Among these, human rights concerns are particularly acute. They include forced mass migration, increased disease incidence and strain on healthcare systems, threatened food and water security, the disappearance and degradation of shelter, land, livelihoods and cultures, and the threat of conflict. This inquiry into the human rights dimensions of climate change looks beyond potential impacts to examine the questions raised by climate change policies: accountability for extraterritorial harms; constructing reliable enforcement mechanisms; assessing redistributional outcomes; and allocating burdens, benefits, rights and duties among perpetrators and victims, both public and private. The book examines a range of so-far unexplored theoretical and practical concerns that international law and other scholars and policy-framers will find increasingly difficult to ignore. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780511770722 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human rights.<br/>Climatic changes--Law and legislation.<br/>Global warming--Law and legislation.<br/>Climatic changes--Political aspects--Developing countries.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K3240  / .H8482 2010 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.5