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 bases for human rights and the environment, the theoretical framework governing human rights and the environment, and the different approaches to this including benchmarks. In addition to a discussion of human rights implications of international environmental law principles in the climate change regime, the book explores how the human rights framework can be used in relation to mitigation, adaption, and adjudication. Other chapters examine how vulnerable groups ¿women, indigenous peoples and climate "refugees" ¿ would be disproportionately affected by climate change. The book then goes on to discuss a new category of people created by climate change, those who will be rendered stateless as a result of states disappearing and displaced by climate change, and whether human rights law can adequately address these emerging issues.
A comprehensive introduction to a most important and topical subject, this book brings the world of weather and climate alive on a breathtaking scale, from tiny ice crystals to vast polar landscapes.
Historic and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the COASTAL Climatic Zone of the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast:...
Historic and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the WESTERN Climatic Zone of the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast...
Historic and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the CENTRAL Climatic Zone of the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast...
Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast Regional Climate Change Project: Analysis of Past Trends and Future Projections of Climate Change...
Case Study 3 - Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Bushfire Risk in the Hunter, Lower North Coast and Central...
In this collection of adventure stories and restored period photos, authors Paul Andrew Mayewski and Michael Cope Morrison tell their personal experiences going to some of the Earth's most remote and challenging places, the scientific ...
Frost Frost develops when it's cold enough for water vapor near the ground to condense onto objects as ice instead of dew . If the ground itself is chilled to below freezing , ground frost forms . When the air above the ground is below ...
1. Introduction -- 1.1. Background -- 1.2. Recent research into securing Broken Hill's water supply and identifying significant water savings -- 2. Regional setting -- 2.1. Study area -- 2.2. Darling River and floodplain hydrology -- 2.3.
"The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and water management agencies representing the seven Colorado River Basin States initiated the Colorado River Basin Study in January 2010 to evaluate the resiliency of the Colorado River system over the next ...