Climate justice and human rights / Tracey Skillington.

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 disa...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Skillington, Tracey (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, U.S.A. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.