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Author: Linda Hajjar Leib
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9004188649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights.
Author: Romina Picolotti
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010-09-15
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780816529346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEs 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: Bridget Lewis
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 981131960X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: John H. Knox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1108421199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.
Author: Michael Addaney
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-08-21
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 3030465233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Sumudu A. Atapattu
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138722743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a solid understanding of both human rights and environmental issues. Combining the authors' specialisms in law and politics, this is a truly inter-disciplinary resource that will be essential for students of human rights, environmental studies, international law, international relations, politics and philosophy.
Author: David R. Boyd
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-29
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 0774821639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Svitlana Kravchenko
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is available as an ebook only. Increasingly, environmental rights are being recognized as enforceable human rights, both substantive and procedural. Environmental law can no longer be viewed merely as a matter for policy choices in legislation. This new casebook shows how international and national court cases in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas have begun to interpret treaties, national constitutions, and human rights legislation to protect the environment through the recognition of rights. For the first time, these rich developments are brought together in a book suitable as a primary text for classes and seminars.
Author: Stephen J. Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 455
ISBN-13: 1108482244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.
Author: Donald K. Anton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 1025
ISBN-13: 1139498525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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.
