United States
£ GBP
Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability challenges the assumed harmony between human rights norms and the demands of environmental sustainability, by addressing conceptual, normative, and political questions surrounding the interaction between the two. What is gained and lost by environmental theorists and activists adopting the language and institutions of human rights? Is there coherence or tension between the values of human rights and environmental sustainability? Is the idea of environmental human rights plausible, and defensible?
Whereas previous studies have considered the interface between human rights and environmental sustainability on an empirical level, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability engages the theoretical and philosophical issues at stake.
Introduction
1. Globalisation, Human Rights, and the Environment
2. Human Rights: Moral Authority and Philosophical Doubts
3. The Contemporary Human Rights Regime: Some Criticisms and an Alternative
4. Environmental Sustainability and Environmental Values
5. The Institutions of Sustainability: Citizenship, Democracy, Justice
6. Rights or Sustainability: Rights and Sustainability?
Works Cited
"Human rights and environmental sustainability have virtually unassailable legitimacy as objectives in the contemporary world. But do they work with or against each other? In this forensic dissection of the relationship between the two concepts, Kerri Woods raises the analytical bar to new heights. The result is a striking combination of intellectual sophistication and political sensitivity – not to be missed."
– Andrew Dobson, Keele University, UK
