Title:
Research handbook on human rights and the environment
Author:
Grear, Anna, 1959- editor.
ISBN:
9781782544425
Physical Description:
viii, 572 pages ; 25 cm.
Series:
Research handbooks in human rights
Research handbooks in human rights.
Contents:
Epistemologies of mastery / Epistemologies of doubt / Ecological subjectivities, responsibilities, and agency / Environmental human rights: a constructive critique / The closures of legal subjectivity: why examining 'law's person' is critical to an understanding of injustice in an age of climate crisis / Property rights, environmental justice and worldly order -- lessons from natural law / Re-imagining the role of the sovereign state and individual rights in mitigating the effects of the deterioration of the environment / Human rights and the environment through an environmental constitutionalism lens / Constitutions, human rights, and the environment: national approaches
Sustainability, environmental citizenship rights and the ongoing challenges of reshaping supranational environmental governance / The United Nations, human rights and the environment / In one ear and out the other: human rights consultations and environmental discourses for human rights in Australasia / Reflecting on cosmology and environmental protection: Maori cultural rights in Aotearoa New Zealand / Environmental justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights / Aligning international environmental governance with the 'Aarhus principles' and participatory human rights / The interaction between human rights and the environment in the European 'Aarhus space' / International courts and environmental human rights: re-imagining adjudicative paradigms
Human rights and the environment in the African Union context / Protecting the human rights of climate displaced persons: the promise and limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / Human rights, environmental justice, and the North-South divide / Selectivity in law-making: regulating extraterritorial environmental harm and human rights violations by transnational extractive corporations / Ecosystem services, fear and the subjects of environmental human rights / Environmental and human rights in ethical context
Abstract:
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 contributors provide researchers and students with a rich source of reflection and engagement with the topic. Split into five parts, the book covers epistemologies, core values and closures, constitutionalisms, universalisms and regionalisms, with a final concluding section exploring major challenges and alternative futures. An essential resource for students and scholars of human rights law, the volume will also be of significant interest to those in the fields of environmental and constitutional law.