Choosing a future
Subtitle: the social and legal aspects of climate change
By: edited by Anna Grear, reader in law, Cardiff Law School, UK, adjunct associate professor of law, University of Waikato, New Zealand, director of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE);  Conor Gearty, professor of human rights law, LSE, director of the Institute for Public Affairs, LSE
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781783477234
Subjects: Congresses; Climatic changes; Government policy; Law and legislation
Other titles: Journal of human rights and the environment.
Notes: "A special issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment."

Based on papers presented at Dahrendorf Symposium  "Changing the European debate : Focus on Climate Change", 2013. --Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Choosing a future: the social and legal aspects of climate change / Anna Grear and Conor Gearty; title: An interview with Connie Hedegaard, European Union Commissioner for Climate Action / Conor Gearty; title: Social and legal aspects of climate change / Mary Robinson; title: An interview with Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice / Conor Gearty; title: Climate ethics and human rights / John H Knox; title: Directional climate justice: the normative relationship between moral claim rights and directed obligations / Marcus Hedahl; title: Changing images of climate change: human rights and future generations / Henry Shue; title: Trade in the service of climate change mitigation: the question of linkage / Olivier De Schutter; title: Towards 'climate justice'? a critical reflection on legal subjectivity and climate injustice: warning signals, patterned hierarchies, directions for future law and policy / Anna Grear; title: Climate justice: the claim of the past / Stephen Humphreys.