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The fragility of climate, human responsibility and finding the impetus to act decisively – investigating the potential of the ethics of care

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Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism, Pages: 114 - 131

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While the climate change crisis is prompting efforts to employ human rights law to address some of the most obvious impacts that is having/will have on people, such an approach exhibits inherent limitations and will, given its very nature, inevitably fall short in addressing anthropogenic climate ch...

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Published in: Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism
ISBN: 978 1 78811 580 3 9781788115810
Published: Edward Elgar Publishing 2019
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