Climate Justice and Human Rights

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-11-26
Mått148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt514 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor287
Upplaga16001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137022806

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Dr. Tracey Skillington is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, where she had received her PhD in visual culture and the contemporary political spectacle. Her research interests include issues of justice that arise in relation to climate change and transnational memory projects. Recent publications include ‘Climate Change and the human rights challenge: extending justice beyond the borders of the nation state’ in The International Journal of Human Rights (2012), and ‘Perspectives on Climate Change’ in a special issue of the European Journal of Social Theory (2015) for which she was Editor.

1.Introduction .- 2. The Idea of Climate Justice .- 3. Resource inequalities, domination and the struggle to reclaim democratic freedoms .- 4. Climate Change and its security implications .- 5. Climate Justice without freedom - Legal and political responses to climate change and forced migration .- 6. On the rights of the peoples of dissappearing states .- 7. What is common about 'our common future'? Maintaining the human rights status of water .- 8. Conclusion - Towards a transnational order of climate justice.