Choosing a future : the social and legal aspects of climate change / edited by Anna Grear, Connor Gearty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grear, Anna, editor.

Gearty, Connor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, concern

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Choosing a future: the social and legal aspects of climate change; An interview with Connie Hedegaard, European Union Commissioner for Climate Action; Social and legal aspects of climate change*; An interview with Mary Robinson, President of the Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice; Climate ethics and human rights; Directional climate justice: the normative relationship between moral claim rights and directed obligations; Changing images of climate change: human rights and future generations

Trade in the service of climate change mitigation: the question of linkageTowards 'climate justice'? A critical reflection on legal subjectivity and climate injustice: warning signals, patterned hierarchies, directions for future law and policy; Climate justice: the claim of the past

Notes:

"A special issue of the Journal of Human rights and the Environment."

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-190-X

OCLC:

881827564