Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection

by Boyle, Alan E.; Anderson, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9780198267898
• ISBN10: 0198267894
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-25
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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 Biography

Alan E. Boyle, Professor of International Law, University of Edinburgh, and Michael R. Anderson, Director of Studies, British Institute for International and Comparative Law

Table of Contents

Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection: An OverviewInternational Dimensions

Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Conceptual Aspects

The Role of International Human Rights Law and the Protection of the Environment

Life, The Universe and Everything: A Critique of Anthropocentric Rights

Environmental Rights in Existing Human Rights Treaties

Environmental Rights in the European Union: Participatory Democracy or Democratic Deficit

Access to Environmental Justice and Procedural Rights in International InstitutionsNational Case Studies

Social Justice and the Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Rights and Duties

Environmental Rights and the New South African Constitution

Individual Rights to Environmental Protection in India

Practical Human Rights, NGOs and the Environment in Malaysia

Indiginous peoples, Environmental Degradation and Human Rights: A Case Study

Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil

Islam and Judicial Activism: Public Address Litigation under Environmental Protection in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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