TY - JOUR AU - Derman, Brandon Barclay PY - 2018/02/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Revisiting limits to legal mobilization for global climate justice: Complexity, territoriality, and responsibility JF - Oñati Socio-Legal Series JA - Oñati Socio-Legal Series VL - 9 IS - 3 SE - Thematic Articles DO - UR - https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1003 SP - 333-360 AB - Amidst disproportionate climate-related harms and inadequate responses, affected groups have turned to legal mobilization. This paper analyzes socio-ecological complexity and territorial limits as themes of enduring relevance in official responses to the Inuit Circumpolar Council&rsquo;s and Maldives&rsquo; foundational legal claims that climate change violates human rights, considering these against the backdrop of evolving understanding of responsibility for climate-related harm in scientific, political, and public discourse. The claims demonstrated that when legal analysis integrates scientific and traditional knowledge, climate change can be seen as violating rights internationally, and identifiable actors as culpable. Respondents disagreed, citing the complexity of climate-related harm, which combines multiple human actors, environmental processes, probability, prediction, and extraterritorial impact. Unresolved gaps between these interpretations raise doubts about law&rsquo;s relevance to growing global inequities of climate change and other processes that mix people, places, and things. <br /><br /> Este art&iacute;culo analiza la complejidad socioecol&oacute;gica y los l&iacute;mites territoriales como temas de importancia permanente en las respuestas oficiales a las reclamaciones legales fundacionales del Consejo Circumpolar Inuit y de las Maldivas, que afirman que el cambio clim&aacute;tico viola derechos humanos. Se consideran esas respuestas sobre el trasfondo de la comprensi&oacute;n paulatina en el discurso cient&iacute;fico, pol&iacute;tico y p&uacute;blico de la responsabilidad por los da&ntilde;os relacionados con el clima. Las demandas demostraron que, cuando el an&aacute;lisis jur&iacute;dico integra el saber cient&iacute;fico y el tradicional, se puede considerar el cambio clim&aacute;tico como violador de derechos internacionales, y a los agentes identificables como culpables. Los cr&iacute;ticos se mostraron en desacuerdo, aludiendo a la complejidad del da&ntilde;o relacionado con el clima. Los vac&iacute;os sin resolver entre esas interpretaciones arrojan dudas sobre la relevancia del derecho en cuanto a crecientes desigualdades globales sobre cambio clim&aacute;tico y otros procesos que comprenden a personas, lugares y cosas.<br /><br /><strong>Available from: </strong><a href="https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1062" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1062</a> ER -