Research Guides
Environmental Justice: 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 [Source: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php]
Selected Books on Climate Change and Environmental Justice
Routledge Handbook of Climate JusticeIncludes discussion of just transition, urban climate justice and public engagement, in addition to the field's more traditional focus on gender, international governance and climate ethics.
Climate Change, Justice and SustainabilityThis volume seeks new methods of combining climate change mitigation, adaptation, development, and poverty reduction in ways that are effective, efficient and equitable.
Climate Change and Social Inequality: The Health and Social Costs of Global WarmingThis book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality.
Transitional Justice and Global Climate GovernanceThis book examines the potential of transitional justice insights to inform global climate governance.
Climate Justice and Human RightsAsserts 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.
Fairness in Adaptation to Climate ChangeProvides a scientific and policy analysis on the challenges of ensuring that adaptation to global climate change doesn't place unfair burdens on vulnerable populations.
The Ethics of Global Climate ChangeTopics 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.
Suggested search terms
In addition to the term "climate change" also try:
"climatic changes"
"global warming"
"climate justice"