Human Rights and the Environment in Africa

A Research Companion
Herausgeber: Ashukem, Jean-Claude N; Sama, Semie M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely collection explores the inextricable relationship between human rights and the environment as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key human rights and environmental issues confronting Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 880g
• ISBN-13: 9781032459073
• ISBN-10: 1032459077
• Artikelnr.: 68473203

Autorenporträt

Jean-Claude N. Ashukem is Researcher at the Global Environmental Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He serves on the Editorial Board of GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis. Semie M. Sama is Assistant Professor of Law at Lakehead University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xi
List of contributors xiii
Acknowledgement xxiii
1 Introduction: African environmentalism and sustainability - framing the
epistemic parameters of human rights and the environment in Africa 1
JEAN-CLAUDE N. ASHUKEM
PART 1
Legal, theoretical, and philosophical issues of human rights and the
environment in Africa 17
2 Critical reflections on rights theory and environmental ethics in
environmental jurisprudence: an African perspective in pursuit of
environmental sustainability 19
SAMUEL BASSEY AND PAUL TERNGU HAAGA
3 The emergence of a human right to a healthy environment and the pursuit
of sustainability in Africa 39
EMMANUEL KASIMBAZI, AND JEAN-CLAUDE N. ASHUKEM
4 Human rights and the environment in pursuit of sustainability in Africa:
a critical assessment of folkloric, legal, and political economy
perspectives 59
OLAWALE AJAI
5 Human rights and the pursuit of environmental sustainability in Africa:
issues and problems in African environmental ethics and environmental law
78
SAMUEL BASSEY AND JOHN ELIZABETH OKON
PART 2
Procedural environmental rights in Africa 95
6 International participatory rights and environment protection in Africa -
powerful tools or "sleeping rights"? 97
JONAS EBBESSON
7 Procedural rights and trans-regional environmental governance in pursuit
of sustainability in Africa: a new African treaty or taking the Aarhus
Convention's route? 116
JEAN-CLAUDE N. ASHUKEM AND TOLULOPE N. OGBORU
8 Pursuing environmental sustainability in Africa: procedural obstacles to
environmental litigation based on human rights law 136
DINAH SHELTON
PART 3
Judiciary and the environment in Africa 159
9 Stepping into the future of environmental sustainability in Africa: a
case for regional environmental courts 161
CHIDINMA THERESE ODAGHARA
10 International criminal law and the pursuit of environmental
sustainability in Africa 179
THOMAS ROSE, LL.M, MSL
11 The judiciary and environmental protection in Africa in pursuit of
sustainability: creating an environmental rule of law jurisprudence in
response to climate change imperatives 197
FUNMI ABIOYE
12 The justiciability of the right to a healthy environment in the
French-speaking states of Africa 214
VINCENT ZAKANÉ
PART 4
Rights to development and natural resources in Africa 237
13 Land grabbing and the right to a healthy environment: the pursuit of
sustainability under the African charter on human and peoples' rights 239
SEMIE M. SAMA
14 Contested priority in the pursuit of sustainability in Africa: the right
to development and/or the right to a satisfactory environment under the
African Charter? 258
JEAN-CLAUDE N. ASHUKEM AND KAREN MORROW
15 Land grabbing in the Anthropocene and the "questionable" pursuit of
sustainability in Africa - highlighting ecological disproportionality 276
JEAN-CLAUDE N. ASHUKEM
16 The inefficacy of international law to address biodiversity loss in
Africa: a quest for environmental sustainability through an Ecocentric
approach 295
CHANE CLARECE HENNEY
17 Reflections on the re-orientation of the methods of shared waters
governance in African river basin organisations 312
FRANCOIS BOKONA
PART 5
Rights of vulnerable communities and sustainability in Africa 329
18 The rights of vulnerable communities to development in pursuit of
environmental sustainability in Africa: the role of the African Union 331
EBUN ABOLARIN
19 The implication of extractive industries' operation on human and
environmental rights of vulnerable groups in pursuit of environmental
sustainability in Africa 353
TSEPO CHEDA
PART 6
Climate change and migration in Africa 373
20 Climate action and the pursuit of environmental sustainability in
Africa: an analysis of Africa's involvement in COP26 discussions 375
LARISSA-JANE H. HOUSTON
21 Assessing African Union's regime on climate change 396
RICHARD OBENG MENSAH, AND ROSE ASAMOAH
PART 7
Desertification in Africa 413
22 Fostering sustainability through mobility - How opening Africa's borders
combats desertification 415
MORITZ VON ROCHOW
23 A rights-based approach to desertification control in pursuit of
sustainability in Africa 435
CHARLOTTE KABASEKE
24 Conclusion: towards a more resilient and sustainable human environmental
rights future for Africa 452
JEAN-CLAUDE N. ASHUKEM
Index 463