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Title

Human rights approaches to environmental protection / edited by Alan E. Boyle and Michael R. Anderson.

Publication

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

• Anderson, Michael R.
• Boyle, Alan E.

Description

xx, 313 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"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, and on proposals for a human right to a satisfactory environment. The collection is an original and timely contribution to the existing literature and offers a sustained analysis which addresses both the conceptual and practical problems in 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 human rights law and EC law, while the second part 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 rights approaches seem to be of greatest value." "Each chapter is written by an author well qualified in the field. The volume will have wide appeal to anyone interested in environmental law and human rights." --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Environmental law, International
• Human rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

0198262558

LCCN

^^^96003223^

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Harvard Library