Choosing a Future

The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change

Buch | Hardcover

160 Seiten

2014
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78347-723-4 (ISBN)

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Drawing together key thinkers and policy experts, this unique volume – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - engages with the human dimensions of climate change, offering a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the challenging relationship between law and society in a time of climate crisis.

The issue is no longer whether climate change is happening; it is rather what we should now be doing about it. Drawing together key thinkers and policy experts, this unique volume - also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - engages with the human dimensions of climate change, offering a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the challenging relationship between law and society in a time of climate crisis. The result is an imaginative, well-informed and provocative collection of contemporary engagements with the greatest challenge of the age, concerned not only to understand the current crisis but to offer perspectives on how it can be addressed. At the heart of this volume is the conviction that change is urgent, possible and morally imperative.

Edited by Anna Grear, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Institute for Public Affairs, London School of Economics, UK

EDITORIAL
Choosing a Future: The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
Anna Grear and Conor Gearty

INSIGHTS AND CONVERSATIONS: SPEAKING OF POLICY
An Interview with Connie Hedegaard, European Union
Commissioner for Climate Action
Conor Gearty

Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change
Mary Robinson

An interview with Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice
Conor Gearty

ARTICLES
Climate Ethics and Human Rights
John H Knox

Directional Climate Justice: The Normative Relationship Between
Moral Claim Rights and Directed Obligations
Marcus Hedahl

Changing Images Of Climate Change: Human Rights And Future Generations
Henry Shue

Trade in the Service of Climate Change Mitigation: The Question of Linkage
Olivier De Schutter

Towards ‘Climate Justice’? A Critical Reflection on Legal Subjectivity
and Climate Injustice: Warning Signals, Patterned Hierarchies,
Directions for Future Law and Policy
Anna Grear

Climate Justice: The Claim of the Past
Stephen Humphreys

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.6.2014
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 249 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-78347-723-7 / 1783477237
ISBN-13	978-1-78347-723-4 / 9781783477234
Zustand	Neuware