Human rights and climate change
By: edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521762762
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Human rights and climate change  -- Stephen Humphreys; title: Competing claims : human rights and climate harms  -- Stephen Humphreys; title: Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds  -- Simon Caney; title: Equitable utilization of the atmosphere : a rights-based approach to climate change?  -- Dinah Shelton; title: Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability  -- Peter Newell; title: Rethinking human rights : the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse  -- Sam Adelman; title: The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability : human rights and equity dimensions  -- Philippe Cullet; title: Forests, climate change and human rights : managing risks and trade-offs  -- Frances Seymour; title: Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health  -- Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla; title: Human rights and vulnerability to climate change  -- Jon Barnett; title: Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality  -- John C. Mutter and Kye Mesa Barnard; title: Conceiving justice : articulating common causes in distinct regimes -- Stephen Humphreys.