2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2010.00266.x
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The Ethical Implications of Sea-Level Rise Due to Climate Change

Abstract: D oes humanity have a moral obligation toward the estimated millions of individuals who will be displaced from their homes over the course of this century primarily due to sea-level rise (SLR) as the earth's climate warms? If there are indeed sound reasons for the world to act on their behalf, what form should these actions take?As scientific evidence for the adverse effects of human-induced climate change grows stronger, it is becoming increasingly clear that these questions are of urgent practical interest a… Show more

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“…268 Territorial claims are also an issue for the intertemporal doctrine, such as in the Island of Palmas Arbitration, a dispute between the United States and Netherlands over the sovereignty of a small Pacific island. 270 These points are discussed in the IPCC 4AR and in Byravan and Rajan (2010), p. 245. 269 That established principle was applied to other cases of the International Court of Justice such as Minquiers and Ecrehos Case, The Western Sahara case, The North Sea Continental Shelf Case and the Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case. The problem of climate-change displaced people encompasses both international human rights and environmental law, which means that from a temporal perspective it can focus on both past and future contexts.…”
Section: Does Climate Change Constitute a Violation Of Humanmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…268 Territorial claims are also an issue for the intertemporal doctrine, such as in the Island of Palmas Arbitration, a dispute between the United States and Netherlands over the sovereignty of a small Pacific island. 270 These points are discussed in the IPCC 4AR and in Byravan and Rajan (2010), p. 245. 269 That established principle was applied to other cases of the International Court of Justice such as Minquiers and Ecrehos Case, The Western Sahara case, The North Sea Continental Shelf Case and the Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case. The problem of climate-change displaced people encompasses both international human rights and environmental law, which means that from a temporal perspective it can focus on both past and future contexts.…”
Section: Does Climate Change Constitute a Violation Of Humanmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…269 That established principle was applied to other cases of the International Court of Justice such as Minquiers and Ecrehos Case, The Western Sahara case, The North Sea Continental Shelf Case and the Aegean Sea Continental Shelf Case. The problem of climate-change displaced people encompasses both international human rights and environmental law, which means that from a temporal perspective it can focus on both past and future contexts. 272 These points are discussed in the IPCC 4AR and in Byravan and Rajan (2010), p. 245. Byravan and Rajan 270 highlight the delayed nature of the effects of greenhouse gases, since climate has a slow-onset character and it takes many decades for the impacts of past greenhouse gases 271 to be felt.…”
Section: Does Climate Change Constitute a Violation Of Humanmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A distributive environmental justice perspective would argue that environmental ills such as pollution and the impacts of climate change have been inequitably distributed. Predominantly marginalized people experience disadvantage through the contamination of their environments and their possession of a lower capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change without having access to the benefits of development through an equitable share of resource revenues (Dobson 1998;Parry et al 2007;Byravan and Rajan 2010). Marginalized groups are generally the most vulnerable to climate impacts given their reduced access to adaptive capacity (Few 2003;Westra 2007;Patt et al 2010, p. 12).…”
Section: Defining Environmental Justicementioning
confidence: 94%
“…The implications of climate change induced migration against the people take a vast place in the literature. For example, there are concerns over the self-identity of the people (Kolers 2012) as well as on people's capabilities and functioning who has to relocate (Byravan & Rajan 2010). Many scholars highlight the human rights implications of CCIM (Corendea 2017;Corendea 2018;Knox 2009).…”
Section: Consequences Of Climate Change Induced Migration In Kiribatimentioning
confidence: 99%