Environmental human rights in the anthropocene : concepts, contexts, and challenges / edited by Walter F. Baber, James R. May.
"Human rights and environmental protection are closely intertwined, and both are critically dependent on supportive legal opportunity structures. These legal structures consist of access to the courts; 'legal stock' or the set of available standards and precedents on which to base lit...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Summary: | "Human rights and environmental protection are closely intertwined, and both are critically dependent on supportive legal opportunity structures. These legal structures consist of access to the courts; 'legal stock' or the set of available standards and precedents on which to base litigation; and institutional receptiveness to potential litigation. These elements all depend on a variety of social, political, and economic variables. This book critically analyses the complexities of uniting human rights advocacy and environmental protection"-- |
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| Item Description: | "This volume grew out of the Lund Roundtable on Human Rights in the Anthropocene sponsored by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University, Sweden." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781009039642 1009039644 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009039642 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2023). |