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Research handbook on human rights and the environment / edited by Anna Grear and Louis J. Kotzé

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Bringing together leading international scholars in the field, this authoritative Handbook combines critical and doctrinal scholarship to illuminate some of the challenging tensions in the legal relationships between humans and the environment, and human rights and environment law. The accomplished...

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Other Authors: Grear, Anna, 1959- (Editor), Kotzé, Louis J. (Editor)
Other title:Human rights and the environment.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2015]
Series:Research handbooks in human rights.
Subjects:
Environmental law.
Environmental law, International.
Human rights.
Table of Contents:
  • Epistemologies of mastery / Sam Adelman
  • Epistemologies of doubt / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
  • Ecological subjectivities, responsibilities, and agency / Lorraine Code
  • Environmental human rights : a constructive critique / Peter D. Burdon
  • The closures of legal subjectivity : why examining 'law's person' is critical to an understanding of injustice in an age of climate crisis / Anna Grear
  • Property rights, environmental justice and worldly order : lessons from natural law / Sean Coyle
  • Re-imagining the role of the sovereign state and individual rights in mitigating the effects of the deterioration of the environment / Francois Venter
  • Human rights and the environment through an environmental constitutionalism lens / Louis J. Kotzé
  • Constitutions, human rights, and the environment : national approaches / David R. Boyd
  • Sustainability, environmental citizenship rights and the ongoing challenges of reshaping supranational environmental governance / Karen Morrow
  • The United Nations, human rights and the environment / Lynda Collins
  • In one ear and out the other : human rights consultations and environmental discourses for human rights in Australasia / Brad Jessup and Annette Jones
  • Reflecting on cosmology and environmental protection : Maori cultural rights in Aotearoa New Zealand / Catherine J. Iorns Magallanes
  • Environmental justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Sophie Thériault
  • Aligning international environmental governance with the 'Aarhus principles' and participatory human rights / Ulrich Beyerlin
  • The interaction between human rights and the environment in the European 'Aarhus space' / Ellen Hey
  • International courts and environmental human rights : re-imagining adjudicative paradigms / Evadne Grant
  • Human rights and the environment in the African Union context / Werner Scholtz
  • Protecting the human rights of climate displaced persons : the promise and limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / Rosemary Lyster
  • Human rights, environmental justice, and the North-South divide / Carmen G. Gonzalez
  • Selectivity in law-making : regulating extraterritorial environmental harm and human rights violations by transnational extractive corporations / Penelope Simons
  • Ecosystem services, fear and the subjects of environmental human rights / Afshin Akhtar Khavari
  • Environmental and human rights in ethical context / Klaus Bosselmann.

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