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Human Rights and Climate Change. Edited by Stephen Humphreys. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xx, 348. Index. $99, £59. - Human Rights and Climate Change: A Review of the International Legal Dimensions. By Siobhán McInerney-Lankford, Mac Darrow, and Lavanya Rajamani. Washington DC: World Bank, 2011. Pp. xii, 145. $20.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Timo Koivurova
Timo Koivurova*
Affiliation:
The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 106 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 437 - 443
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2 For a recent work, which includes interesting national cases, see Donald K. Anton & Dinah L. Shelton, Environmental Protection and Human Rights (2011).

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