Climate justice
Subtitle: a voice for the future
By: Teresa M. Thorp
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781137394637
Subjects: Climatic changes; Law and legislation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics; LAW / Environmental; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy
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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-428) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: IntroductionPART I: UNIFYING THE PARAMETERS OF CLIMATE JUSTICE1.Scope of the Work2.Optimizing Dynamic Normative Systems3.What's Gone Wrong?PART II: LAUNCHING A PROCESS APPLICABLE TO ALL4.The Elements5.First Principles6.Auxiliary PrinciplesPART III: REFLECTIONS ON THE CONSTITUTIONALISM OF INTERNATIONAL LAW7.General Observations and Conclusions.