Climate change and human rights : perspectives of environmental and indigenous rights / Bridget Lewis.
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Publication details:
Sydney : Australasian Law Teachers Association, 2008.
Record id:
199422
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Series:
Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association ; 1 (1-2).
Subject:
Human rights Australia.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes -- Law and legislation.
Environmental law -- Australia.
Environmental protection -- Australia.
United Nations. General Assembly. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Contents:
I. Introduction
II. The benefits of constructing climate change as a human rights issue
III. Positioning climate change within the framework of international human rights law
IV. The Inuit case
V. Conclusion
Summary:
This paper highlights the benefits of recognising climate change as a human rights issue, rather than merely as an economic or environmental issue. - Extract from introduction.
Phys. description:
1 online resource (pages 153-161) : digital, PDF