Climate change and Indigenous peoples
Subtitle: the search for legal remedies
By: edited by Randall S. Abate, Elizabeth Ann Kronk
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9781781001790; 9781781001806
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Legal status, laws; Environmental law; Climatic changes; Law and legislation
Description: Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely disrupted by the effects of climate change. Additionally, in many parts of the world, domestic law is applied differently to indigenous peoples than it is to their non-indigenous peers, further complicating the quest for legal remedies. The contributors to this book bring a range of expert legal perspectives to this complex discussion, offering both a comprehensive explanation of climate change-related problems faced by indigenous communities and a breakdown of various real world attempts to devise workable legal solutions. Regions covered include North and South America (Brazil, Canada, the US and the Arctic), the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Tuvalu and the Federated States of Micronesia), Australia and New Zealand, Asia (China and Nepal) and Africa (Kenya). -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Commonality among unique indigenous communities: an introduction to climate change and its impacts on indigenous people / Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk; title: Introduction to international and domestic climate change regulation / Deepa Badrinarayana; title: Introduction to indigenous peoples' status and rights under international human rights law / Lillian Aponte Miranda; title: Introduction to indigenous sovereignty under international and domestic law / Eugenia Charles-Newton and Elizabeth Ann Kronk; title: Climate change and indigenous peoples: comparative models of sovereignty / Rebecca Tsosie; title: Indigenous environmental knowledge and climate change adaptation / Maxine Burkett; title: REDD+: its potential to melt the glacial resistance to recognize human rights and indigenous peoples' rights at the World Bank / Leonardo A. Crippa; title: REDD+ and indigenous peoples in Brazil / Andrew Long; title: REDD+: climate justice or a new face of manifest destiny? Lessons drawn from the indigenous struggle to resist colonization of Ojibwe forests in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Philomena Kebec; title: Natural resource development and indigenous peoples / Sarah Krakoff and Jon-Daniel Lavallee; title: Climate change and tribal water rights: removing barriers to adaptation strategies / Judith V. Royster.; title: Canadian indigenous peoples and climate change : the potential for Arctic land claims agreements to address changing environmental conditions / Sophie Theriault; title: America's Arctic: climate change impacts on indigenous peoples and subsistence / Peter Van Tuyn; title: The Saami facing the impacts of global climate change / Irina L. Stoyanova; title: Complexities of addressing the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples through international law petitions: a case study of the Inuit petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Hari M. Osofsky; title: Climate change, legal governance, and the Pacific Islands: an overview / Erika J. Techera; title: Fiji: climate change, tradition and Vanua / Victoria Sutton; title: Islands in the stream: addressing climate change from a small island developing state perspective / Clement Yow Mulalap; title: The rising tide of international climate litigation: an illustrative hypothetical of Tuvalu v. Australia / Keely Boom; title: The impacts of climate change on indigenous populations in China and legal remedies / Wenxuan Yu, Jingjing Liu and Po Dong; title: Changing climate and changing rights: exploring legal and policy frameworks for indigenous mountain communities in Nepal to face the challenges of climate change / J. Mijin Cha; title: Climate change impacts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia / Megan Davis; title: Negotiating climate change: Maori, the crown, and New Zealand's emission trading scheme / Naomi Johnstone; title: Climate change, law, and indigenous peoples in Kenya: Ogiek and Maasai narratives / Patricia Mbote and Elvin Nyukuri.