Archive: Jun 2014

Chikungunya, Climate Change, and Human Rights Chikungunya is a re-emerging arbovirus that causes significant morbidity and some mortality. Global climate change leading to warmer temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns allow mosquito vectors to…

Social Justice, Climate Change, and Dengue Climate change should be viewed fundamentally as an issue of global justice. Understanding the complex interplay of climatic and socioeconomic trends is imperative to protect human health and lessen the…

Prioritizing Health: A Human Rights Analysis of Disaster, Vulnerability, and Urbanization in New Orleans and Port-au-Prince Climate change prompts increased urbanization and vulnerability to natural hazards. Urbanization processes are relevant to a…

Collective Violence Caused by Climate Change and How It Threatens Health and Human Rights The weight of scientific evidence indicates that climate change is causally associated with collective violence. This evidence arises from individual studies…

Climate Change, Children’s Rights, and the Pursuit of Intergenerational Climate Justice Frequently forgotten in the global discussions and agreements on climate change are children and young people, who both disproportionately suffer the consequences…

Advancing Climate Justice and the Right to Health Through Procedural Rights Scholars have increasingly recognized the ways in which climate change threatens the human rights of people around the world, with a disproportionate burden on the rights of…