ABSTRACT
This chapter employs a study in rural Bangladesh to demonstrate the import of the human rights considerations of the community-level, impact of climate change on human rights. It outlines the methods of a multi-site, cross-community transdisciplinary study of the effects of slow- and rapid-onset environmental changes that are similar to those anticipated to be more common and more widespread with climate change. The chapter discusses those findings that are related to one particularly pernicious–and anticipated to be widespread–consequence of environmental and climate change: threats to populations living at sea level. It argues that the human rights impacts of these environmental changes are integrated throughout the political economy. The chapter addresses the human rights impacts of climate change entails addressing not only environmental change but also the way in which inequalities in the power to influence the local political economy affect human rights consequences of that change.
