Environmental Rights: Critical Perspectives

by Miller,Chris

• ISBN13: 9780415170642
• ISBN10: 0415170648
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-08-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Drawing on key theories of modern philosophers and jurists and case reports from judicial decisions in US, UK and European courts, Christopher Miller examines individual rights to clean air and water, free access to information and the right to participate in environmental decisions in the UK and the European Union.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(4)
Acknowledgements	xv	(2)
Table of statutes	xvii	(4)
Table of European Directives	xxi	(1)
Table of European Regulations	xxii	(1)
Table of Articles of Treaty of Rome (as amended)	xxiii	(1)
Table of cases:	xxiv	(1)
England and Wales	xxiv	(2)
European Court of Justice	xxvi	(1)
European Court of Human Rights	xxvii	(1)
USA and Canada	xxvii
1 The concept of an `environmental right'	1	(22)
2 Has the European Union conferred `environmental rights' on its citizens?	23	(23)
3 Town and country planning	46	(26)
4 Do we have a right `to breathe clean air'?	72	(21)
5 A right to clean water?	93	(23)
6 Radiological protection	116	(27)
7 The erosion of property rights	143	(16)
8 Landscapes, species and habitats	159	(17)
9 Are ecocentric rights so very different?	176	(12)
Notes	188	(24)
Names index	212	(2)
Subject index	214