Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection

About this book

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.

Contents

1. Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection: An Overview; INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS; 2. Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Conceptual Aspects; 3. The Role of International Human Rights Law and the Protection of the Environment; 4. Life, The Universe and Everything: A Critique of Anthropocentric Rights; 5. Environmental Rights in Existing Human Rights Treaties; 6. Environmental Rights in the European Union: Participatory Democracy or Democratic Deficit; 7. Access to Environmental Justice and Procedural Rights in International Institutions; NATIONAL CASE STUDIES; 8. Social Justice and the Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Rights and Duties; 9. Environmental Rights and the New South African Constitution; 10. Individual Rights to Environmental Protection in India; 11. Practical Human Rights, NGOs and the Environment in Malaysia; 12. Indiginous peoples, Environmental Degradation and Human Rights: A Case Study; 13. Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil; 14. Islam and Judicial Activism: Public Address Litigation under Environmental Protection in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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