Climate change and Indigenous peoples : the search for legal remedies / edited by Randall S. Abate, Elizabeth Ann Kronk Warner.

Indigenous peoples occupy a unique niche within the climate justice movement, as many Indigenous communities live subsistence lifestyles that are severely disrupted by the effects of climate change. Additionally, in many parts of the world, domestic law is applied differently to Indigenous peoples t...

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Other Authors: Abate, Randall S., Kronk Warner, Elizabeth Ann
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Commonality among unique Indigenous communities : an introduction to climate change and its impacts on Indigenous people / Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk
  • Introduction to international and domestic climate change regulation / Deepa Badrinarayana
  • Introduction to Indigenous peoples' status and rights under international human rights law / Lillian Aponte Miranda
  • Introduction to Indigenous sovereignty under international and domestic law / Eugenia Charles-Newton and Elizabeth Ann Kronk
  • Climate change and Indigenous peoples : comparative models of sovereignty / Rebecca Tsosie
  • Indigenous environmental knowledge and climate change adaptation / Maxine Burkett
  • REDD+ : its potential to melt the glacial resistance to recognize human rights and Indigenous peoples' rights at the World Bank / Leonardo A. Crippa
  • REDD+ and Indigenous peoples in Brazil / Andrew Long
  • REDD+ : climate justice or a new face of manifest destiny? : lessons drawn from the Indigenous struggle to resist colonization of Ojibwe forests in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Philomena Kebec
  • Natural resource development and Indigenous peoples / Sarah Krakoff and Jon-Daniel Lavallee
  • Climate change and tribal water rights : removing barriers to adaptation strategies / Judith V. Royster
  • Canadian Indigenous peoples and climate change : the potential for Arctic land claims agreements to address changing environmental conditions / Sophie Theriault
  • America's Arctic : climate change impacts on Indigenous peoples and subsistence / Peter Van Tuyn
  • The Saami facing the impacts of global climate change / Irina L. Stoyanova
  • Complexities of addressing the impacts of climate change on Indigenous peoples through international law petitions : a case study of the Inuit petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights / Hari M. Osofsky
  • Climate change, legal governance and the Pacific Islands : an overview / Erika J. Techera
  • Fiji : climate change, tradition and Vanua / Victoria Sutton
  • Islands in the stream : addressing climate change from a small island developing state perspective / Clement Yow Mulalap
  • The rising tide of international climate litigation : an illustrative hypothetical of Tuvalu v Australia / Keely Boom
  • The impacts of climate change on Indigenous populations in China and legal remedies / Wenxuan Yu, Jingjing Liu and Po Dong
  • Changing climate and changing rights : exploring legal and policy frameworks for Indigenous mountain communities in Nepal to face the challenges of climate change / J. Mijin Cha
  • Climate change impacts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia / Megan Davis
  • Negotiating climate change : Maori, the Crown, and New Zealand's emission trading scheme / Naomi Johnstone
  • Climate change, law and indigenous peoples in Kenya : Ogiek and Maasai narratives / Patricia Mbote and Elvin Nyukuri.