Environmental Rights

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774821636

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The Environmental Rights Revolution by David R. Boyd Pdf

The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.

Author : Stephen J. Turner,Dinah L. Shelton,Jona Razzaque,Owen McIntyre,James R. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108482240

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Environmental Rights by Stephen J. Turner,Dinah L. Shelton,Jona Razzaque,Owen McIntyre,James R. May Pdf

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

Author : Joshua C. Gellers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781315524405

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The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights by Joshua C. Gellers Pdf

Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design in South Asia, Gellers presents a comprehensive response to this important question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant. Scholars, practitioners, and students of law, political science, and sociology interested in understanding how institutions cope with complex problems like environmental degradation and human rights violations will find this book to be essential reading.

Author : PAUL. MULDOON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177255572X

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INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN CANADA. by PAUL. MULDOON Pdf

Author : Markku Oksanen,Ashley Dodsworth,Selina O'Doherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351742511

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Environmental Human Rights by Markku Oksanen,Ashley Dodsworth,Selina O'Doherty Pdf

The nature of environmental human rights and their relation to larger rights theories has been a frequent topic of discussion in law, environmental ethics and political theory. However, the subject of environmental human rights has not been fully established among other human rights concerns within political philosophy and theory. In examining environmental rights from a political theory perspective, this book explores an aspect of environmental human rights that has received less attention within the literature. In linking the constraints of political reality with a focus on the theoretical underpinnings of how we think about politics, this book explores how environmental human rights must respond to the key questions of politics, such as the state and sovereignty, equality, recognition and representation, and examines how the competing understandings about these rights are also related to political ideologies. Drawing together contributions from a range of key thinkers in the field, this is a valuable resource for students and scholars of human rights, environmental ethics, and international environmental law and politics more generally.

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774824156

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The Right to a Healthy Environment by David R. Boyd Pdf

Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world's worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada's green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.

Author : Tim Hayward,Reader in the School of Social and Political Studies Tim Hayward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199278671

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Constitutional Environmental Rights by Tim Hayward,Reader in the School of Social and Political Studies Tim Hayward Pdf

This book shows why a fundamental right to an adequate environment ought to be provided in the constitution of any modern democratic state. It explains why the right to an environment adequate for one's health and well-being is a genuine human right and why it ought to be constitutionalised.

Author : Stephen Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135090258

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A Global Environmental Right by Stephen Turner Pdf

The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance. Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the existing global legal architecture would address some of the fundamental root causes of environmental degradation. It puts forward a draft global environmental right that would integrate duties for both state and non-state actors within reformed systems of environmental governance and a rational framework for business and industry to adhere to in order that those systems could be made operational. It also examines the failures of the existing international climate change regime and explains how the draft global environmental right could remedy existing deficits. This innovative and interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to policy-makers, students and researchers in international environmental law, climate change, environmental politics and global environmental governance as well as those studying the WTO, international trade law, human rights law, constitutional law and corporate law.

Author : Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043788350

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Environmental Rights in Canada by Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation Pdf

Author : Romina Picolotti,Jorge Daniel Taillant
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0816529345

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Linking Human Rights and the Environment by Romina Picolotti,Jorge Daniel Taillant Pdf

Es un libro de consulta valiosa que explora el territorio desconocido que hay entre la legislación ambiental y de los derechos humanos. Más que un tratado teórico, se argumenta que el activismo de los derechos humanos representa una oportunidad importante para hacer frente a las consecuencias humanas de la degradación del medio ambiente y puede servir como un catalizador de ideas y acciones inspiradoras en el mundo real -- Contraportada.

Author : WILLIAM A. TILLEMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1772555584

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY. by WILLIAM A. TILLEMAN Pdf

Author : Linda Hajjar Leib
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004188648

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Human Rights and the Environment by Linda Hajjar Leib Pdf

The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights.

Author : Sean Coyle,Karen Morrow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847310330

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The Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Law by Sean Coyle,Karen Morrow Pdf

Legal regulation of the environment is often construed as a collection of legislated responses to the problems of modern living. Treated as such,'environmental law' refers not to a body of distinctive juristic ideas (such as one might find in contract law or tort) but to a body of black-letter rules out of which a distinct jurisprudence might grow. This book challenges the accepted view by arguing that environmental law must be seen not as a mere instrument of social policy, but as a historical product of surprising antiquity and considerable sophistication. Environmental law, it is argued, is underpinned by a series of tenets concerning the relationship of human beings to the natural world, through the acquisition and use of property. By tracing these ideas to their roots in the political philosophy of the seventeenth century, and their reception into the early law of nuisance, this book seeks to overturn the perception that environmental law's philosophical significance is confined to questions about the extent to which a state should pursue collective well-being and public health through deliberate manipulation and restriction of private property rights. Through a close re-examination of both early and modern statutes and cases, this book concludes that, far from being intelligible in exclusively instrumental terms, environmental law must be understood as the product of sustained reflection upon fundamental moral questions concerning the relationship between property, rights and nature.

Author : Donald K. Anton,Dinah L. Shelton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139498524

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Environmental Protection and Human Rights by Donald K. Anton,Dinah L. Shelton Pdf

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.

Author : Jerzy Jendrośka,Magdalena Bar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 1780686102

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Procedural Environmental Rights by Jerzy Jendrośka,Magdalena Bar Pdf

'Procedural Environmental Rights: Principle X in Theory and Practice' provides an overview of various aspects of the current status, development and practice of rights of access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters following their codification as non-binding principles in Principle X of the Rio Declaration.