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the context of climate changes and its victims

Abstract

Climate change are causing a crisis in that multiple affect natural resources and the environment. But also produce an economic impact can not yet be quantified. Indeed, the company, for the first time confronted with a problem which may not be prepared. Moreover, the results of climate change on nature have consequences in social relations, population levels in the food supply, new diseases and expansion of some old shifts in environmental finally on topics that would hardly be the object of regulation. Is no longer allowed to classify all extreme weather events as mere “natural hazards”, when you already know that your fruit is rather worsening human intervention in nature, implying an existential risk of catastrophic proportions, if not change the current situation of environmental degradation. And the law is the instrument for the regulation of social relationships able to adjust the behavior not only of private actors, but also the state standards ecologically sustainable and appropriate mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Therefore, the aim of this research was to contextualize climate change and identify what are their victims.

Key words:
Law; Climate changes; Environmental refugees

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