Climate justice
Subtitle: a voice for the future
By: Teresa M. Thorp
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137394644; 9781349484003
Subjects: Climatic changes; Law and legislation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Development; General; Environmental Economics; LAW; Environmental; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Economic Policy; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Environmental economics; International environmental law; Climate change; Environment law; Public international law: environment; Economics
Description: "The adverse impacts of climate change (heat waves, extended drought, severe flooding and desertification) represent an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet. Climate Justice - a voice for our future - responds to human adversity by mobilizing climate justice as legal justice. A first principles approach to constitutionalize legal justice helps to legitimize and realize a unified, transparent, comprehensible, accessible and responsive process that applies to all. Part one examines and unifies parameters of climate justice within the legal system. Part two develops a constitutional response to systematic system failure (injustice). Thorp then shows how to use the model to launch a process to develop an agreement applicable to all and with legal force under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The book will interest philanthropists and all interested in the future of humanity. It will appeal to climate justice movements, NGO constituencies, environmental groups, human rights advocates, governments, negotiators, businesses, and other decision-makers"--
Table of contents: title: PART I: UNIFYING THE PARAMETERS OF CLIMATE JUSTICE; title: 1. Scope of the Work; title: 2. Optimizing Dynamic Normative Systems; title: 3. What's Gone Wrong?; title: PART II: LAUNCHING A PROCESS APPLICABLE TO ALL; title: 4. The Elements; title: 5. First Principles; title: 6. Auxiliary Principles; title: PART III: REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTIONALISM OF INTERNATIONAL LAW; title: 7. General Observations and Conclusions.