Research Catalog

Title

The human right to a healthy environment / edited by John H. Knox, Ramin Pejan.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Knox, John H.
• Pejan, R.

Description

xvii, 290 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Two of the great achievements of international law have been to define the human rights integral to a life of dignity, freedom, and equality, and to develop rules and institutions that protect the global environment. Because these two areas of the law developed separately and at different times, the relationship between them was at first unclear"--

Subject

• Environmental law, International
• Human rights > Environmental aspects
• Gesundheitsschaden
• Internationales Umweltrecht
• Recht auf Gesundheit
• Umweltverschmutzung
• Völkerrecht
• Health
• Right to a sound, satisfactory and healthy environment
• Environmental law
• Human rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / John H. Knox and Ramin Pejan -- 2. Catalyst for change: evaluating forty years of experience in implementing the right to a healthy environment / David R. Boyd -- 3. Learning from constitutional environmental rights / Erin Daly and James R. May -- 4. The right to a satisfactory, healthy, and sustainable environment in the African regional human rights system / Lilian Chenwi -- 5. The European Court of Human Rights and international environmental law / Ole W. Pedersen -- 6. Complexities and uncertainties in matters of human rights and the environment: identifying the judicial role / Dinah Shelton -- 7. Reasoning up: environmental rights as customary international law / Rebecca M. Bratspies -- 8. In search of a right to a healthy environment in international law: jus cogens norms / Louis J. Kotzé -- 9. A human right to a healthy environment?: moral, legal, and empirical considerations / César Rodríguez-Garavito -- 10. Quality control of the right to a healthy environment / Marcos Orellana -- 11. The politics of human rights, the environment, and climate change at the Human Rights Council: toward a universal right to a healthy environment? / Marc Limon -- 12. The male ́formulation of the overarching environmental human right / Daniel Magraw and Kristina Wienhöfer ; Appendix A: Malé declaration on the human dimension of global climate change -- 13. Human rights in the climate change regime: from Rio to Paris and beyond / Lavanya Rajamani -- 14. The right to a healthy environment and climate change : mismatch or harmony? / Sumudu Atapattu

ISBN

• 9781108431583
• 1108431585
• 9781108421195
• 1108421199
• 9781108373074 (canceled/invalid)
• 1108373070 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781108367530 (canceled/invalid)
• 1108367534 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018006529

OCLC

• on1019649960
• 1019649960
• SCSB-9137921

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library