Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection [Paperback]

This collection of essays explores linkages 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. The collection offers a sustained analysis which addresses both the conceptual and practical problems of environmental rights.

1: Michael Anderson: Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection: An Overview
International Dimensions
2: Professor J. G. Merrills: Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Conceptual Aspects
3: Professor Alan Boyle: The Role of International Human Rights Law and the Protection of the Environment
4: Catherine Redgwell: Life, The Universe and Everything: A Critique of Anthropocentric Rights
5: Dr Robin Churchill: Environmental Rights in Existing Human Rights Treaties
6: S. Douglas-Scott: Environmental Rights in the European Union: Participatory Democracy or Democratic Deficit
7: James Cameron & Ruth Mackenzie: Access to Environmental Justice and Procedural Rights in International Institutions
National Case Studies
8: Fran??ois du Bois: Social Justice and the Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Rights and Duties
9: Jan Glazewski: Environmental Rights and the New South African Constitution
10: Michael Anderson: Individual Rights to Environmental Protection in India
11: Dr Andrew Harding: Practical Human Rights, NGOs and the Environment in Malaysia
12: Adriana Fabra: Indiginous peoples, Environmental Degradation and Human Rights: A Case Study
13: Edesio Fernandez: Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil
14: Martin Lau: Islam and Judicial Activism: Public Address Litigation under Environmental Protection in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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International Dimensions
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