Research Guides: Environmental Justice: Climate change

Climate change

Acknowledging that climate change is a common concern of humankind, Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity...affirming the importance of education, training, public awareness, public participation, public access to information and cooperation at all levels on the matters addressed in this Agreement.

—Preamble of the Paris Climate Change Agreement 2015

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Selected Books on Climate Change and Environmental Justice

Climate Change and Social Inequality
Call Number: e-book
This book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality.
Climate Change from the Streets
Call Number: e-book
An urgent and timely story of the contentious politics of incorporating environmental justice into global climate change policy Michael Méndez tells a timely story of people, place, and power in the context of climate change and inequality. He explores the perspectives and influence low‑income people of color bring to their advocacy work on climate change.
Climate Justice and Community Renewal
Call Number: e-book
This book brings together the voices of people from five continents who live, work, and research on the front lines of climate resistance and renewal. The many contributors to this volume explore the impacts of extreme weather events in Africa, the Caribbean and on Pacific islands, experiences of life-long defenders of the land and forests in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and eastern Canada, and efforts to halt the expansion of fossil-fuel infrastructure from North America to South Africa.
Climate Justice and Human Rights
Call Number: e-book
Asserts that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples to resist capitalist interference with their capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.
The Ethics of Global Climate Change
Call Number: Print
Topics addressed in these essays include moral accountability for energy consumption and emissions, the ethics of adaptation, and the ethical dimensions of the impact of climate change on nature
Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change
Call Number: e-book
Provides a scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change doesn't place unfair burdens on vulnerable populations.
Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice by Tahseen Jafry (Editor)
Call Number: e-book
Addressing the need for a comprehensive and integrated reference compendium, The Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice provides students, academics and professionals with a valuable insight into this fast-growing field. Drawing together a multidisciplinary range of authors from the Global North and South, this Handbook addresses some of the most salient topics in current climate justice research, including just transition, urban climate justice and public engagement, in addition to the field's more traditional focus on gender, international governance and climate ethics.
Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Climate Governance
ISBN: 9781315312545
This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to offer a timely and comprehensive analysis of the opportunities and challenges for integrating human rights in diverse areas and forms of global climate governance. The first half of the book explores how human rights principles and obligations can be used to reconceive climate governance and shape responses to particular aspects of climate change. The second half of the book identifies lessons in the integration of human rights in climate advocacy and governance and sets out future directions in this burgeoning domain.