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Climate Justice and Human Rights
Tracey Skillington
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Description for Climate Justice and Human Rights
Hardcover. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPVH; LAQ; LNKJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 218 x 22. Weight in Grams: 514.
This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of procedures ... Read more
This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster. The author assesses how this state of affairs might be reversed and the societal relevance of universal human rights rejuvenated. It explores how freedom from want, war, persecution and fear of ecological catastrophe might be better secured in the future through a democratic reorganization of procedures ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137022806
SKU
V9781137022806
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Ref
99-15
About Tracey Skillington
Dr. Tracey Skillington is Lecturer in Sociology at University College Cork, Republic of Ireland, where she had received her PhD in visual culture and the contemporary political spectacle. Her research interests include issues of justice that arise in relation to climate change and transnational memory projects. Recent publications include `Climate Change and the human rights challenge: extending justice beyond the ... Read more
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