Understanding vulnerability in the context of climate change

Vulnerability is a large, ambiguous, undetermined, and increasingly relevant concept. It is a notion that engages jurists, philosophers, sociologists and ecologists, all of whom have tried to attribute to it a meaning, a content and a set of characteristics. Vulnerability is also reflected in all or almost all areas of our lives: we experience it in the humanitarian, health, economic and social crises that periodically and mercilessly afflict our societies, exacerbated by the fragility of natural systems and the growing climatic risks. The global climate situation has revealed not only a uniform vulnerability, but also a series of different and variable vulnerabilities that affect human beings, ecosystems, nature, planet, and human and non-human rights. This collective book, prepared by a number of academics from various legal disciplines, questions about the concept and substance of vulnerability, but also addresses its application, its manifestations, and above all its interaction with other concepts and principles already present or currently emerging in the area of Environmental Law. The aim, therefore, is to emphasize this notion as a common denominator of the underlying issues related to climate change in international, European, human rights and biodiversity law.

ÍNDICE

Chapter 1. Introductory remarks / Mar Campins Eritja, &Rahma Bentirou Mathlouthi.

Chapter 2. Where are we? Climate change, trends and risks / Javier Martín Vide

Chapter 3. Understanding vulnerability in the context of climate emergency: developments and judicial approaches / Marta Torre-Schaub.

Chapter 4. The role of citizens and Non-Governmental Organizations in climate litigation at national level / Alexandre Peñalver i Cabré

Chapter 5. Due diligence obligations as a tool to manage radical vulnerability from climate change / Ángel J. Rodrigo Hernández

Chapter 6. Climate change litigation and human rights: Addressing the rights of future generations / Rosa M. Fernández Egea

Chapter 7. Gender climate justice in a context of intersectional vulnerabilities / Susana Borràs-Pentinat

Chapter 8. Indigenous peoples and local communities – vulnerable yet actors of transformation in climate change context / Leila Ghassemi Farreras

Chapter 9. The vulnerability of marine protected areas to frequentation in a context of climate change. The example of nautical frequentation in France / Adélie Pomade & Mariana Bruck de Moraes Ponna Schiavetti

Chapter 10. The inclusion (or yet the lack of) environmental norms in regional trade agreements between countries vulnerable to climate change / Delphine Ducasse & Michelle Hurdle

Chapter 11. Concluding remarks / Sandrine Maljean-Dubois