Justice Nexus

This book offers a compelling interdisciplinary examination of the complex intersections between human rights, environmental sustainability and climate governance in an increasingly fragmented global landscape. As climate change moves from abstract threat to lived reality, this volume critically interrogates how prevailing climate responses often reinforce structural inequalities, marginalisation and systemic injustice rather than resolve them.Bringing together scholars from law, environmental governance, political economy, health sciences and postcolonial studies, this edited collection reframes climate change as a multidimensional human rights crisis. It explores critical themes including gender parity, deforestation, energy justice, modern slavery, greenwashing, colonial legacies in education and indigenous knowledge systems, situating them within broader debates on sustainable development and global environmental policy.Through rigorous analysis and empirical insight, the contributors challenge dominant technocratic approaches and advocate rights-based, community-centred solutions grounded in equity, accountability and intergenerational justice. Essential reading for academics, policymakers, legal practitioners, development professionals and climate advocates, this volume offers a vital framework for reimagining climate governance through the lens of justice, inclusivity and human dignity.

Dr Cynthia C. Umezulike (LLB Hons, BL, LLM (London), LLM (Intl Law and Criminal Justice), PhD (Law) (London)) is an international human rights lawyer, legal scholar and climate-sustainability specialist. She currently serves as President of Global Human Rights Centre, Senior Lecturer in Law and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development, Energy Transitions and Climate Change at the University of Bedfordshire (UK).Dr Victor C. Azubike is Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Business, Education and Law, University of Huddersfield (UK), and a member of its Centre for Law, Environment and Rights (CLEAR). His research centres on international environmental law, energy transitions, energy security and the role of national oil companies in petroleum-rich states.Dr Obinna C. Edeji (LLB Nig; BL Nig; LLM Aberdeen; PhD Exeter) is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Buckingham School of Law (UK), and a qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His research focuses on international human rights law, socio-economic rights, children's educational rights, human dignity theory and the political economy of rights implementation.