Youth climate courts : how you can host a human rights trial for people and planet / Thomas A. Kerns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kerns, Thomas A., 1942- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation--Juvenile literature.

Climatic changes.

Climatic changes--Government policy--Participation, Juvenile--Juvenile literature.

Climatic changes--Government policy.

Mock trials--Juvenile literature.

Mock trials.

Climatic changes--Law and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Tom Kerns is Director of Environment and Human Rights Advisory and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Seattle College, USA. His work brings human rights norms to bear on environmental issues, especially on the climate crisis. In 2015 he served on the drafting group for the international "Declaration on Human Rights and Climate Change", and from 2014 until 2018 he co-organized the 2018 Permanent Peoples' Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. He is co-editor, with Kathleen Dean Moore, of Bearing Witness: The Human Rights Case Against Fracking and Climate Change (2021), a book based on the testimony and findings in that Tribunal.

Contents:

Dear reader

Introduction

How does a youth climate court work

What are human rights?

Which specific human rights?

CODA : Youth interventions for an addicted world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 31, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Kerns, Thomas A., 1942- Youth climate courts

ISBN:

9781003217640

1003217648

9781000508819

1000508811

9781000508741

1000508749

Publisher Number:

40030891709

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.