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Choosing a Future - The Social and Legal Aspects of Climate Change

Author
Grear A., Gearty C.
Date
2014
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-093180)
Publisher | Place of publication
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | Cheltenham, United Kingdom
ISBN
978-1-78347-723-4
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Air & atmosphere
Keyword
Human rights Future generations Climate change Ethics and environment
Abstract

The issue is no longer whether climate change is happening; it is rather what we should now be doing about it. Drawing together key thinkers and policy experts, this volume – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - engages with the human dimensions of climate change, offering a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the challenging relationship between law and society in a time of climate crisis. The result is an imaginative, well-informed and provocative collection of contemporary engagements with the greatest challenge of the age, concerned not only to understand the current crisis but to offer perspectives on how it can be addressed. At the heart of this volume is the conviction that change is urgent, possible and morally imperative.

Full text
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DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781784711900