Humphreys, Stephen Ed.,

Human rights and climate change / edited by Stephen Humphreys ; with a foreword by Mary Robinson. - Cambridge ; Cambridge University Press, c2010. - xx, 348 p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights and climate change / Competing claims : human rights and climate harms / Climate change, human rights and moral thresholds / Equitable utilization of the atmosphere : a rights-based approach to climate change? / Climate change, human rights and corporate accountability / Rethinking human rights : the impact of climate change on the dominant discourse / The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability : human rights and equity dimensions / Forests, climate change and human rights : managing risks and trade-offs / Climate change and the right to the highest attainable standard of health / Human rights and vulnerability to climate change / Climate change, evolution of disasters and inequality / Conceiving justice : articulating common causes in distinct regimes / Stephen Humphreys -- Stephen Humphreys -- Simon Caney -- Dinah Shelton -- Peter Newell -- Sam Adelman -- Philippe Cullet -- Frances Seymour -- Paul Hunt and Rajat Khosla -- Jon Barnett -- John C. Mutter and Kye Mesa Barnard -- Stephen Humphreys. Introduction:

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aHuman rights.
aClimatic changes--Law and legislation.
aGlobal warming--Law and legislation.
aClimatic changes--Political aspects--Developing countries.

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