Environmental Protection and Human Rights

by Donald K. Anton , Dinah L. Shelton

• ISBN13: 9780521747103
• ISBN10: 0521747104
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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. By illuminating human rights theory and the institutions that can be employed to meet environmental goals, 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 rights, to a clean environment.

Table of Contents

Law and the environment

The environment as a human rights issue

An introduction to human rights origins and theory

The international protection of human rights

International human rights institutions and procedures

Substantive human rights

Procedural human rights and the environment

Indigenous peoples, rights and the environment

Humanitarian crises: armed conflicts and other disasters

Environmental rights and international finance: the World Bank example

Human rights, the environment, and corporate accountability

Case studies

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