Climate justice. Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges
- Publisher:
- Environmental Law Institute
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-20
- Authors:
- Randall S. Abate
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58576-181-4
Description:
Climate change is one of the most complex political, social, and environmental issues of this century, and climate change adaptation has become an increasingly large focus of global efforts. The international community's attention on adaptation has been primarily focused on developing countries' needs, with consensus that the world's most vulnerable communities―the urban and rural poor, low-lying island nations, and indigenous peoples―require additional protection. It was in response to this need for equity that "climate justice" emerged.Climate justice can be defined generally as addressing the disproportionate burden of climate change impacts on poor and marginalized communities. It seeks to promote more equitable allocation of the burdens of these impacts at the local, national, and global levels through proactive regulatory initiatives and reactive judicial remedies that draw on international human rights and domestic environmental justice theories. Yet, efforts to define climate justice as a field of inquiry can be elusive and underinclusive because the concept is so vast in scope.Climate Justice: Case Studies in Global and Regional Governance Challenges seeks to fill that void, providing an overview of the landscape of climate justice from a variety of legal and geographic perspectives in a case study format. Drawing on the expertise of 29 contributors from 16 countries, the book analyzes climate justice from an international law perspective and from the perspectives of legal responses to promote climate justice in several regions of the world, including Pacific island nations, South Asia, North America, Africa, and the Middle East. It addresses proposed solutions to a range of regulatory obstacles under international law, U.S. law, and foreign domestic law in seeking to promote climate justice on a global scale
International Governance Perspectives
- Advancing Climate Justice in National Climate Actions: The Promise and Limitations of the United Nations Human Rights-Based Approach
- From Justice to Participation: The Paris Agreement's Pragmatic Approach to Differentiation
- The Green Climate Fund, International Governance, and Climate Justice in Developing Nations
- Energy Access, Climate Justice, and Financing Innovation
- Corporate Responsibility: Promoting Climate Justice Through the Divestment of Fossil Fuels and Socially Responsible Investment
- Human Rights Dimensions of Bioenergy With Carbon Capture and Storage: A Framework for Climate Justice in the Realm of Climate Geoengineering
North American Perspectives
- Flee the Rising Sea? South Florida's Choice of Leadership or Litigation
- The Seas Are Rising and So Are Community Voices: Coastal Resilience and Climate Justice Through Public Participation After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
- Justice in an Unconventional World: First Nations' Treaty Rights and Procedural Climate Justice in Alberta's Oil Sands Region
- The Impact of Climate Change on American and Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Their Water Resources: A Climate Justice Perspective
Island Nation Perspectives
- Justice for Small Island Nations: Intersections of Equity, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice
- To Preserve the Heritage of the Past, and to Protect the Promise of the Future': Intergenerational Equity Challenges From Climate Change in the Federated States of Micronesia
- Climate Justice for Human and Nonhuman Islanders: Domestic Duties, Regional Responsibilities, and International Interventions
South Asian Perspectives
- Taking Climate Justice to the Himalayan Heights: A Proposed Adaptive Mountain Governance Framework to Address Climate Change Impacts in the Indian Himalayan Region
- Monsoons, Hydropower, and Climate Justice in Pakistan's River Communities
- Climate Change Impacts and Human Rights of Rural Women in Bangladesh
Climate Justice in the Courts
- From Responsibility to Cost-Effectiveness to Litigation: The Evolution of Climate Change Regulation and the Emergence of Climate Justice Litigation
- Atmospheric Trust Litigationin the United States: Pipe Dream or Pipeline to Justice for Future Generations?
- Trends in Climate Justice Litigation: The Dutch Case and Global Repercussions
- Climate Justice for Future Generations: A Case Study in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Site of Australia
- Climate Justice Litigation in the Inter-American Human Rights System to Protect Indigenous Peoples in Mexico
- Indigenous Peoples Bringing Climate Justice to Canada