Climate Litigation and Justice in Africa

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In recent years, climate litigation has become an important subject of global scholarly and policy interest. However, developments within the Global South, particularly in Africa, have been largely neglected. This volume brings together...

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Otros Autores: Bogg, Alan, contributor (contributor), Bouwer, Kim, editor (editor), Etemire, Uzuazo, editor, Field, Tracy-Lynn, editor, Oluborode Jegede, Ademola, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press [2024]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Bristol Studies in Law and Social Justice Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786714806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Africa, Climate Justice and the Role of the Courts
  • Legal Tools, Opportunities and Barriers
  • Towards a Risk-Thematic Approach for African Climate Litigation
  • State Duty to 'Protect' Rights and Legal Obstacles to Climate Litigation
  • Litigation Against Coal-fired Power in South Africa: Lessons from and for Global Climate Litigation to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  • Climate Change Litigation in Civil Law African Countries: An Assessment of Barriers and Potentialities in Cameroon
  • Rights-Based Approaches
  • The Prospects and Challenges of Litigating Climate Change Before African Regional Human Rights Bodies
  • Climate Change Displacement Litigation in Africa: A Human Rights and Refugee Law-Based Approach
  • The Vulnerability of African Indigenous Peoples' Traditional Meteorological Knowledge in the Climate Change Debate
  • Rights-Based Climate Change Litigation Against Private Actors
  • Different Roads to the Same Destination: Climate Change Litigation in South Africa and the Netherlands and the Role of Human Rights in the Mitigation of Climate Change
  • Justice, Equity and Activism
  • Climate Change and Multinationals in Nigeria: A Case for Climate Justice
  • Law and Climate Change in North African Countries: Morocco as a Case Study
  • Climate Litigation in South Africa and Nigeria: Legal Opportunities and Gender Perspectives
  • Future Citizens: Intergenerational Equity in Climate Activism
  • Index