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Addressing Health Crises Through Courts? Climate Litigation in Latin America, the Right to Health and Vulnerable Populations = = Abordar las crisis de salud a traves de los tribunales? Litigios climaticos en America Latina, el derecho a la salud y poblaciones vulnerables.

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Title/Author:	Addressing Health Crises Through Courts? Climate Litigation in Latin America, the Right to Health and Vulnerable Populations =/
Reminder of title:	Abordar las crisis de salud a traves de los tribunales? Litigios climaticos en America Latina, el derecho a la salud y poblaciones vulnerables.
remainder title:	Abordar las crisis de salud a traves de los tribunales? Litigios climaticos en America Latina, el derecho a la salud y poblaciones vulnerables.
Author:	Viveros Uehara, Thalia.
Description:	1 online resource (288 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-03B.
Subject:	Climate change. -
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ISBN:	9798380334709

Addressing Health Crises Through Courts? Climate Litigation in Latin America, the Right to Health and Vulnerable Populations = = Abordar las crisis de salud a traves de los tribunales? Litigios climaticos en America Latina, el derecho a la salud y poblaciones vulnerables.
Viveros Uehara, Thalia.

Addressing Health Crises Through Courts? Climate Litigation in Latin America, the Right to Health and Vulnerable Populations =Abordar las crisis de salud a traves de los tribunales? Litigios climaticos en America Latina, el derecho a la salud y poblaciones vulnerables.Abordar las crisis de salud a traves de los tribunales? Litigios climaticos en America Latina, el derecho a la salud y poblaciones vulnerables. - 1 online resource (288 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Boston, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

As Latin America faces increasing climate-related health crises that disproportionately affect populations experiencing poverty and social exclusion, it becomes increasingly urgent to realize the most vulnerable's right to health. While the region's new constitutionalism (NLAC) has made progress in protecting this right, it has only recently begun to intersect with climate change law through rights-based climate litigation. This dissertation takes a transdisciplinary multi-methods research approach to answer the following question: How do health crises emerge within, and how are they addressed by courts through, domestic climate litigation in Latin America? Specifically, it examines how health concerns for vulnerable populations are raised and addressed in climate litigation, aiming to identify how the profiles, motives, and resources of claimants and judges influence how they protect the right to health of the most marginalized groups. By also considering the legal and broader socio-political contexts intertwined with climate-related health crises, the research aims to contribute to a better understanding of Latin America's climate litigation by exploring how the socio-ecological dimensions of health vulnerability are reflected in and redressed by judicial decisions. The dissertation concludes that within the corpus of climate litigation in Latin America (77 cases of which 61 are rights-based), health crises manifest and are addressed by domestic constitutional courts in diverse manners, none of which sufficiently address the full socio-ecological spectrum of health vulnerability. This partial manifestation of health crises is underpinned by the complex interplay between the socio-political realities of both claimants and judges, which influence their framing and utilization of normative tools. In particular, while the right to health has emerged as a prominent instrument in climate litigation, enabling claimants to obtain legal standing and courts to justify the cessation of climate change-inducing activities, the social dimension of vulnerability (health's relationship with poverty and social exclusion) remains partially redressed. For the most part, climate litigation serves as a platform for unidimensional ecological concerns. The research thus contends that the judicial pathway is not currently sufficient as the sole mechanism for addressing health crises. However, there is potential for improving climate litigation's alignment with climate justice by broadening strategic and interpretative horizons for claimants and courts to account for the realities faced by those most vulnerable to climate change. To achieve this, employing socio-ecological bottom-up strategies by litigant civil society organizations, adopting open legal standing rules, embracing broad-ranging remedial designs within progressive legal traditions, and deepening judges' understanding of claimants' social contexts seem to be crucial components. Currently, these prospects appear more likely to materialize in Colombia and Ecuador than in Chile and Mexico.

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520 $a A medida que America Latina enfrenta crecientes crisis de salud relacionadas con el clima, las cuales afectan de manera desproporcionada a las poblaciones en condiciones de pobreza y exclusion social, se vuelve cada vez mas urgente garantizar el derecho a la salud de estos segmentos de la poblacion. Aunque el nuevo constitucionalismo de la region (NLAC) ha progresado en la proteccion de dicho derecho, solo recientemente ha comenzado a intersectar con el derecho del cambio climatico a traves de los litigios climaticos basados en derechos humanos. Esta disertacion adopta un enfoque de investigacion transdisciplinario y multimetodo para responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿Como emergen y como son abordadas por los tribunales nacionales las crisis de salud en el contexto de los litigios climaticos en America Latina? Especificamente, examina como se presentan y adjudican las preocupaciones de salud de las poblaciones vulnerables en los litigios climaticos, con el objetivo de identificar como los perfiles, motivos y recursos de los demandantes y jueces influyen en la proteccion del derecho a la salud de los grupos mas marginados. Al considerar tambien los contextos legales y sociopoliticos que enmarcan las crisis de salud exacerbadas por el cambio climatico, la investigacion contribuye a una mejor comprension de los litigios climaticos de America Latina al explorar como se reflejan y se remedian las dimensiones socioecologicas de la vulnerabilidad en salud en las decisiones judiciales.La disertacion concluye que, dentro del corpus del litigio climatico en America Latina (77 casos de los cuales 61 son basados en derechos), las crisis de salud se manifiestan y son abordadas por los tribunales constitucionales nacionales de diversas maneras, ninguna de las cuales atiende suficientemente el espectro socioecologico de la vulnerabilidad en salud. Esta manifestacion parcial de las crisis de salud ocurre debido a la compleja interaccion entre las realidades sociopoliticas tanto de los demandantes como de los jueces, las cuales influyen en su comprension y consecuente utilizacion de herramientas normativas. En particular, si bien el derecho a la salud ha surgido como un instrumento prominente en los litigios climaticos, permitiendo a los demandantes demostrar legitimacion y a los tribunales justificar la cesacion de actividades que contribuyen al cambio climatico, la dimension social de la vulnerabilidad (la relacion de la salud con la pobreza y la exclusion social) es abordada parcialmente. En su mayoria, el litigio climatico ha fungido como plataforma para preocupaciones ecologicas unidimensionales. Por tanto, la investigacion sostiene que el camino judicial no es actualmente suficiente como unico mecanismo para abordar las crisis de salud.No obstante, existe potencial para mejorar la alineacion de los litigios climaticos con la justicia climatica ampliando los horizontes estrategicos e interpretativos para que los demandantes y los tribunales consideren las realidades a las que se enfrentan los segmentos de la poblacion mas vulnerables al cambio climatico. Para lograr esto, se consideran componentes cruciales: el empleo de estrategias socioecologicas de abajo hacia arriba por parte de las organizaciones de la sociedad civil litigante, la legitimacion activa amplia, la adopcion de disenos remediales de amplio alcance y de tradiciones legales progresistas, y el profundizar la comprension de los jueces sobre los contextos sociales de los demandantes. Actualmente, estas perspectivas parecen mas propensas a materializarse en Colombia y Ecuador que en Chile y Mexico.
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