Climate change and human rights

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 159-170

  Bell, Derek ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

A-STABLE; ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGES; CRITICAL DISCUSSIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; KEY FEATURE; LEGAL SCHOLARS; PER CAPITA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN RIGHTS; MORALITY; POLITICS;

EID: 84876186117     PISSN: 17577780     EISSN: 17577799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.218     Document Type: Article

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