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Environmental protection and human rights [electronic resource] / Donald K. Anton, Dinah Shelton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.Description: xxxviii, 986 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 344.04/6 22
LOC classification:
  • K3585 .A58 2011
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Law and the environment; 2. The environment as a human rights issue; 3. An introduction to human rights origins and theory; 4. The international protection of human rights; 5. International human rights institutions and procedures; 6. Substantive human rights; 7. Procedural human rights and the environment; 8. Indigenous peoples, rights and the environment; 9. Humanitarian crises: armed conflicts and other disasters; 10. Environmental rights and international finance: the World Bank example; 11. Human rights, the environment, and corporate accountability; 12. Case studies.
Summary: "With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. By illuminating human rights theory and the institutions that can be employed to meet environmental goals, this book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects, to the creation of a new human rights, to a clean environment"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Law and the environment; 2. The environment as a human rights issue; 3. An introduction to human rights origins and theory; 4. The international protection of human rights; 5. International human rights institutions and procedures; 6. Substantive human rights; 7. Procedural human rights and the environment; 8. Indigenous peoples, rights and the environment; 9. Humanitarian crises: armed conflicts and other disasters; 10. Environmental rights and international finance: the World Bank example; 11. Human rights, the environment, and corporate accountability; 12. Case studies.

"With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment"-- Provided by publisher.

"With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. By illuminating human rights theory and the institutions that can be employed to meet environmental goals, this book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects, to the creation of a new human rights, to a clean environment"-- Provided by publisher.

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