The climate change regulatory framework and indigenous peoples’ lands in Africa: Human rights implications

• Author: Ademola Oluborode Jegede
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 electronic resource (341 p.)

Employing a human rights approach, this book analyses the adequacy of climate change regulatory frameworks at international, regional and national levels to protect indigenous peoples’ lands in Africa. It demonstrates that without appropriate legal protection, climate change and the implementation o...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Human rights and climate change: conceptual framework
• The notion of indigenous peoples' land rights and the adverse effects of climate change in Africa
• The international climate change regulatory framework in relation to indigenous peoples' lands
• National climate change regulatory frameworks in relation to indigenous peoples' lands
• The inadequacy of the national climate change regulatory framework in relation to indigenous peoples' lands: a Human rights framework as a regional response
• Conclusion and the way forward.