Reducing vulnerability - A possible contribution of the human rights community to the conundrums of climate change
(2009) MRSM01 20091Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- The realisation that climate change will have serious effects on human life has activated the wider human rights community, which is now searching for an entrance into the global issue of our time. So far, most efforts by human rights practitioners have been concentrated on the overarching problem of global injustice, which relates to the right to development.
However, in estimating the effects of climate change on human beings, the concept of vulnerability emerges as a key factor. By investigating the social dimensions of vulnerability, and by navigating a network of connected concepts, including poverty; climate change adaptation and human development, this essay suggests that the human rights community can contribute by reducing... (More) - The realisation that climate change will have serious effects on human life has activated the wider human rights community, which is now searching for an entrance into the global issue of our time. So far, most efforts by human rights practitioners have been concentrated on the overarching problem of global injustice, which relates to the right to development.
However, in estimating the effects of climate change on human beings, the concept of vulnerability emerges as a key factor. By investigating the social dimensions of vulnerability, and by navigating a network of connected concepts, including poverty; climate change adaptation and human development, this essay suggests that the human rights community can contribute by reducing vulnerabilities to lessening the adverse effects on human beings from global warming. Above all, this means sticking to what it does best — namely safeguarding human dignity and equality in the relation between the individual and the state. (Less)
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- author
- Lindkvist Gustafsson, Linde LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MRSM01 20091
- year
- 2009
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Climate Change, Vulnerability, Human Rights, Human Security, Human Rights-based approach, human development, Risk Position, Risk Society, Adaptation, The Right to Development, Poverty, Disability
- language
- English
- id
- 1393230
- date added to LUP
- 2009-05-06 11:23:19
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:46
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abstract = {{The realisation that climate change will have serious effects on human life has activated the wider human rights community, which is now searching for an entrance into the global issue of our time. So far, most efforts by human rights practitioners have been concentrated on the overarching problem of global injustice, which relates to the right to development.
However, in estimating the effects of climate change on human beings, the concept of vulnerability emerges as a key factor. By investigating the social dimensions of vulnerability, and by navigating a network of connected concepts, including poverty; climate change adaptation and human development, this essay suggests that the human rights community can contribute by reducing vulnerabilities to lessening the adverse effects on human beings from global warming. Above all, this means sticking to what it does best — namely safeguarding human dignity and equality in the relation between the individual and the state.}},
author = {{Lindkvist Gustafsson, Linde}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Reducing vulnerability - A possible contribution of the human rights community to the conundrums of climate change}},
year = {{2009}},
}