[PDF] Environmental Protection And Human Rights eBook

Author : Donald K. Anton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139498525

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With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment.

Author : Romina Picolotti
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816529346

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Es un libro de consulta valiosa que explora el territorio desconocido que hay entre la legislación ambiental y de los derechos humanos. Más que un tratado teórico, se argumenta que el activismo de los derechos humanos representa una oportunidad importante para hacer frente a las consecuencias humanas de la degradación del medio ambiente y puede servir como un catalizador de ideas y acciones inspiradoras en el mundo real -- Contraportada.

Author : Stefan Theil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108835147

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A practical human rights approach strengthens environmental protection without requiring radical departures from established protection regimes and legal principles.

Author : Stephen J. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108482244

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A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

Author : Bridget Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 981131960X

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This book examines the current status of environmental human rights at the international, regional, and national levels and provides a critical analysis of possible future developments in this area, particularly in the context of a changing climate. It examines various conceptualisations of environmental human rights, including procedural rights relating to the environment, constitutional environmental rights, the environmental dimensions of existing human rights such as the rights to water, health, food, housing and life, and the notion of a stand-alone human right to a healthy environment. The book addresses the topic from a variety of perspectives, drawing on underlying theories of human rights as well as a range of legal, political, and pragmatic considerations. It examines the scope of current human rights, particularly those enshrined in international and regional human rights law, to explore their application and enforceability in relation to environmental problems, identifying potential barriers to more effective implementation. It also analyses the rationale for constitutional recognition of environmental rights and considers the impact that this area of law has had, both in terms of achieving stronger environmental protection and environmental justice, as well as in influencing the development of human rights law more generally. The book identifies climate change as the key environmental challenge facing the global community, as well as a major cause of negative human rights impacts. It examines the contribution that environmental human rights might make to rights-based approaches to climate change.

Author : Alan E. Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198267898

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This collection of essays explores links between the environment and human rights, and responds to the growing debate among activists, lawyers, academics and policy-makers on the legal status of environmental rights in both international and domestic law, and on the proposals for a human rightto a satisfactory environment. The collection is an original and timely contribution to the existing literature on this subject, and offers a sustained analysis which addresses both the conceptual and practical problems of environmental rights. The conceptual dimensions are particularly rich,raising fundamental questions concerning the human/environment relationship as well as more general issues regarding the form, content and limitations of international and domestic human rights law. The first part of the book deals mainly with the protection of the environment in international humanrights law and EC law, while part two concentrates on problems and experience in developing countries, some of which have already incorporated environmental rights and international constitutional law and from which a growing jurisprudence has emerged. This is where at present human rightsapproaches seem to be of greatest value. Each chapter is written by an author well qualified in the field. The volume will have a wide appeal to anyone interested in environmental law and human rights.

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 0774821639

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The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.

Author : Michael Addaney
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2020-08-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 3030465233

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This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa. Focusing on African Union law, the book explores the core concepts and principles, theory and practice, accountability mechanisms and key issues challenging human rights law in the era of global environmental change. It, thus, extend the frontier of understanding in this fundamental area by building on existing scholarship on African human rights law and the protection of the environment, divulging concerns on redressing environmental and human rights protection issues in the context of economic growth and sustainable development. It further offers unique insight into the development, domestication and implementation challenges relating to human rights law and environmental governance in Africa. This long overdue interdisciplinary exploration of human rights law and the environment from an African perspective will be an indispensable reference point for academics, policymakers, practitioners and advocates of international human rights and environmental law in particular and international law, environmental politics and philosophy, and African studies in general. It is clear that there is much to do, study and share on this timely subject in the African context.

Author : John H. Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108421199

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This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

Author : Jan Hancock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 135175839X

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This title was first published in 2003. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of human security and environmental protection to the values of allocative efficiency and economic growth. The capacity of social power to construct ethical norms and to determine the efficacy of law is examined to explain how ethical and legal concepts have been selectively applied to accommodate existing patterns of production, consumption and exchange that cause environmental degradation and human rights violations. By looking at how environmental values have been systematically excluded from the human rights discourse, the book claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.