Representations And Rights Of The Environment

Author : Sandy Lamalle,Peter Stoett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108855983

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Representations and Rights of the Environment by Sandy Lamalle,Peter Stoett Pdf

Attending to the 'Cry of the Earth' requires a critical appraisal of how we conceive our relationship with the environment, and a clear vision of how to apprehend it in law and governance. Addressing questions of participation, responsibility and justice, this collective endeavour includes marginalised and critical voices, featuring contributions by leading practitioners and thinkers in Indigenous law, traditional knowledge, wild law, the rights of nature, theology, public policy and environmental humanities.Such voices play a decisive role in comprehending and responding to current global challenges. They invite us to broaden our horizon of meaning and action, modes of knowing and being in the world, and envision the path ahead with a new legal consciousness. A valuable reference for students, researchers and practitioners, this book is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.

Author : Mihnea Tanasescu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137538956

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Environment, Political Representation and the Challenge of Rights by Mihnea Tanasescu Pdf

Tanasescu examines the rights of nature in terms of its constituent parts. Besides offering a thorough theoretical grounding, the book gives a first detailed overview of the actual cases of rights for nature so far. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the rights of nature to date, both analytically and in terms of actual cases.

Author : Sumudu Atapattu,Andrea Schapper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351757942

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Human Rights and the Environment by Sumudu Atapattu,Andrea Schapper Pdf

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encourage students to think critically about how many environmental issues lead to a violation of existing rights. Taking a socio-legal approach, this book will provide a good understanding of both human rights and environmental issues, as well as the limitations of each regime, and will explore the ways in which human rights law and institutions can be used to obtain relief for the victims of environmental degradation or of adverse effects of environmental policies. In addition, it will place an emphasis on climate change and climate policies to highlight the pros and cons of using a human rights framework and to underscore its importance in the context of climate change. As well as identifying emerging issues and areas for further research, each chapter will be rich in pedagogical features, including web links to further research and discussion questions for beyond the classroom. Combining their specialisms in law and politics, Atapattu and Schapper have developed a truly inter-disciplinary resource that will be essential for students of human rights, environmental studies, international law, international relations, politics, and philosophy.

Author : Markku Oksanen,Ashley Dodsworth,Selina O'Doherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Tim Hayward
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191535314

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Constitutional Environmental Rights by 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. The importance of securing provision for environmental protection at the constitutional level is now widely recognized. Globally, more than 100 states make some form of provision for environmental protection in their constitutions. A question more hotly debated, though, is whether the provision should take the stringent form of a fundamental right. This book is the first to examine the question from the perspective of political theory. 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 constitutionalized. It carefully elaborates this case and defends it in closely argued responses to critical challenges. It thus shows why there is no insurmountable obstacle to the effective implementation of this constitutional right, and why constitutionalizing this right is not democratically illegitimate. With particular reference to European Union member states, it explains what this right adds to states' existing human rights and environmental commitments. It concludes by showing how constitutional environmental rights can serve to promote the cause of environmental justice in a global context. The book provides illustrations from around the world of how human rights and environmental concerns have been linked to date, and highlights precedents for the future development of a fundamental right to an adequate environment. It will be of value to policy-makers, lawyers, campaigners, and citizens concerned with environmental protection as a public interest and fundamental right. It will provide a valuable resource for students and teachers in politics, philosophy, law, environmental studies, and social sciences more generally. The book makes an original contribution to normative political theory by rethinking rights and justice in the light of contemporary issues and contexts.

Author : W. Paul Gormley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Environmental law, International
ISBN : OCLC:49197636

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Human Rights and Environment by W. Paul Gormley Pdf

Author : Donald K. Anton,Dinah L. Shelton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : John R. Gold,George Revill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134758555

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Representing the Environment by John R. Gold,George Revill Pdf

The development of the environmental movement has relied heavily upon written and visual imagery. Representing the Environment offers an introductory guide to representations of the environment found in the media, literature, art and everyday life encounters. Featuring case studies from Europe, the Americas and Australia, Representing the Environment provides practical guidance on how to study environmental representations from a cultural and historic perspective, and places the reader in the role of active interpreter. The book argues that studying representations provides an important lens on the development of environmental attitudes, values and decision-making.

Author : Daniel P. Corrigan,Markku Oksanen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000386134

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Rights of Nature by Daniel P. Corrigan,Markku Oksanen Pdf

Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age. In recent years, a diverse range of countries and jurisdictions have adopted these norms, which involve granting legal rights to nature or natural objects, such as rivers, forests, or ecosystems. This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders and analyzes legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to this development. Drawing on contributions from a range of experts in the field, Rights of Nature: A Re-examination investigates the potential for this innovative idea to revolutionize the concepts of rights, standing, and recognition as traditionally understood in many legal systems. Taking as its starting point Stone’s influential 1972 article "Should Trees Have Standing?," the book examines the progress rights of nature have made since that time, by identifying central themes, unifying principles, and key distinctions in how rights of nature discourse has been operationalized in the disciplines of law, philosophy, and the social sciences. These themes and principles are illustrated through a wide variety of examples, including ecosystem services, indigenous thinking, and ecological restoration, demonstrating how the relationship between humanity and the natural world may be transforming. Taking a philosophical, political, and legal perspective, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and policy, environmental ethics, and philosophy.

Author : Jan Hancock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351758390

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Environmental Human Rights by Jan Hancock Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of human security and environmental protection to the values of allocative efficiency and economic growth. The capacity of social power to construct ethical norms and to determine the efficacy of law is examined to explain how ethical and legal concepts have been selectively applied to accommodate existing patterns of production, consumption and exchange that cause environmental degradation and human rights violations. By looking at how environmental values have been systematically excluded from the human rights discourse, the book claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.

Author : Tim Hayward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Environmental law
ISBN : 0415530768

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Human Rights and the Environment by Tim Hayward Pdf

Author : David Grinlinton,Prue Taylor
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004182646

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Property Rights and Sustainability by David Grinlinton,Prue Taylor Pdf

This book offers a unique and thought provoking exploration of how property concepts can be substantially reshaped to meet ecological challenges. It takes the discussion beyond its traditional parameters and offers new insights into conceptualizing and justifying property systems, in an age of ecological consequences.

Author : Linda Hajjar Leib
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Cameron La Follette,Chris Maser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351652056

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Sustainability and the Rights of Nature by Cameron La Follette,Chris Maser Pdf

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability. This shift advocates building a relationship of integrity and reciprocity with the planet by placing Nature in the forefront of our rights-based legal systems. The authors discuss means of achieving this by laying out Nature’s Laws of Reciprocity and providing a roadmap of the strategies and directions needed to create a Rights of Nature-oriented legal system that will shape and maintain human activities in an environmentally sustainable manner. This work is enriched with an array of unique and relevant points of reference such as the feudal notions of obligation, principles of traditional indigenous cultivation, the Pope Francis Encyclical on the environment, and the new Rights of Nature-based legal systems of Ecuador and Bolivia that can serve as prototypes for the United States and other countries around the world to help ensure a future of environmental sustainability for all living systems.

Author : Paul Martin,Sadeq Z. Bigdeli,Trevor Daya-Winterbottom,Willemien du Plessis,Amanda Kennedy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784719425

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The Search for Environmental Justice by Paul Martin,Sadeq Z. Bigdeli,Trevor Daya-Winterbottom,Willemien du Plessis,Amanda Kennedy Pdf

This thoughtful book provides an overview of the major developments in the theory and practice of Ôenvironmental justiceÕ. It illustrates the direction of the evolution of rights of nature and exposes the diverse meanings and practical uses of the conc