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- Climate Change and the Voiceless
- Climate Change and the Voiceless
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An Anthropogenic Problem That Requires an Ecocentric Solution
- 2 Climate Change Litigation in Domestic Courts and Human Rights Commissions
- 3 Protection of Future Generations
- 4 Legal Personhood for Wildlife
- 5 Rights of Nature
- 6 Proposal for Enhanced Stewardship and Rights-Based Protections for the Voiceless
- Subject Index
- Cases Index
3 - Protection of Future Generations
Prior to and during the Anthropocene Era
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2019
- Climate Change and the Voiceless
- Climate Change and the Voiceless
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- About the Author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An Anthropogenic Problem That Requires an Ecocentric Solution
- 2 Climate Change Litigation in Domestic Courts and Human Rights Commissions
- 3 Protection of Future Generations
- 4 Legal Personhood for Wildlife
- 5 Rights of Nature
- 6 Proposal for Enhanced Stewardship and Rights-Based Protections for the Voiceless
- Subject Index
- Cases Index
Summary
Building on Chapter 2’s focus on the use of the courts to advance the foundations of the climate justice movement in the United States and at the foreign domestic and international levels, Chapter 3 discusses the “future generations” component of the voiceless community and how the common law has been a valuable tool to protect it on environmental matters. The stewardship-oriented focus on the protection of future generations began with protection of environmental resources generally and then adjusted its focus to the protection of the climate system in the Anthropocene era through stewardship-focused and rights-based theories.
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- Climate Change and the VoicelessProtecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources, pp. 43 - 96Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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