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Abate Randall S

Climate change and Indigenous peoples : the search for legal remedies - London Edward Elgar 2013 - 590p xxvii

Table of contents
Contents:
Foreword Stacy Leeds

PART I: INTRODUCTORY CONTEXT AND PRINCIPLES
1. Commonality Among Unique Indigenous Communities: An Introduction to Climate Change and its Impacts on Indigenous Peoples Randall S. Abate and Elizabeth Ann Kronk;

2. Introduction to International and Domestic Climate Change Regulation Deepa Badrinarayana;

3. Introduction to Indigenous Peoples' Status and Rights under International Human Rights Law
Lillian Aponte Miranda;

4. Introduction to Indigenous Sovereignty under International and Domestic Law
Eugenia Charles-Newton and Elizabeth Ann Kronk;

5. Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Comparative Models of Sovereignty
Rebecca Tsosie;

6. Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Climate Change Adaptation
Maxine Burkett;

PART II: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
International Organizations 7. REDD+: Its Potential to Melt the Glacial Resistance to Recognize Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples' Rights at the World Bank Leonardo A. Crippa;
South America
8. REDD+ and Indigenous Peoples in Brazil Andrew Long;

9. REDD+: Climate Justice or a New Face of Manifest Destiny? Lessons Drawn from the Indigenous Struggle to Resist Colonization of Ojibwe Forests in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Philomena Kebec;

Lower 48 States of the United States of America
10. Natural Resource Development and Indigenous Peoples Sarah Krakoff and Jon-Daniel Lavallee;

11. Climate Change and Tribal Water Rights: Removing Barriers to Adaptation Strategies Judith V. Royster
Arctic;
12. Canadian Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: The Potential for Arctic Land Claims Agreements to Address Changing Environmental Conditions Sophie Theriault;

13. America's Arctic: Climate Change Impacts on Indigenous Peoples and Subsistence
Peter Van Tuyn;

14. The Saami Facing the Impacts of Global Climate Change Irina L. Stoyanova;

15. Complexities of Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Peoples through International Law Petitions: A Case Study of the Inuit Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hari M. Osofsky

Pacific Island Nations
16. Climate Change, Legal Governance and the Pacific Islands: An Overview Erika J. Techera;

17. Fiji: Climate Change, Tradition and Vanua Victoria Sutton;

18. Islands in the Stream: Addressing Climate Change from a Small Island Developing State Perspective
Clement Yow Mulalap;

19. The Rising Tide of International Climate Litigation: An Illustrative Hypothetical of Tuvalu v. Australia
Keely Boom;

Asia
20. The Impacts of Climate Change on Indigenous Populations in China and Legal Remedies
Wenxuan Yu, Jingjing Liu and Po Dong;

21. Changing Climate and Changing Rights: Exploring Legal and Policy Frameworks for Indigenous Mountain Communities in Nepal to Face the Challenges of Climate Change J. Mijin Cha;

Australia and New Zealand
22. Climate Change Impacts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities in Australia
Megan Davis;

23. Negotiating Climate Change: Maori, the Crown and New Zealand's Emission Trading Scheme
Naomi Johnstone;

Africa
24. Climate Change, Law and Indigenous Peoples in Kenya: Ogiek and Maasai Narratives
Patricia Kameri-Mbote and Elvin Nyukuri;
Index

ISBN: 9781781001790

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Indigenous Peoples - Legal Status2. Environmental Law3. Climatic Changes - Law & Legislation

Dewey Class. No.: 344.046000 / ABA