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Climate Justice : A Voice for the Future by Teresa M. Thorp is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this ground-breaking work, Teresa Thorp tackles the causes and effects of climate injustice by methodically mapping out an approach by which to reach a negotiated consensus with legal force to protect present and future generations. Using the law and policy of climate change as a vehicle for illustrating how to shape our future, she comprehensively overturns the widely held contemporary view of climate justice as inconstant charitable acts, relative systemic notions and static concepts isolated from the common good and a congruent rule of law. Responding to the adverse impacts of climate change (heat waves, extended drought, severe flooding and desertification), which represent an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet, requires a new and cohesive way of thinking about global policy and the law. The mission of guaranteeing and realising human dignity, human security and human rights is multi-fold. Looking through the lens of kaleidoscopic normativity, an extensible language anchored in common juridical elements should facilitate how norms enter the socio-legal frame and interact within it. Users need to be able to display and interpret the c

Who reads Climate Justice : A Voice for the Future?

Author

Teresa M. Thorp

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137394644

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Science