Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities

by Sumudu Atapattu

Book Overview

Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic impact on human beings was not really understood as a human rights issue until recently.

This book examines the link between climate change and human rights in a comprehensive manner. It looks at human rights approaches to climate change, including the jurisprudential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041572709X
• ISBN13: 9780415727099
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"