Alan E. Boyle / Michael R. Anderson

Human Rights Approaches to Environmenttal Protection

Herausgeber: Anderson, Michael; Boyle, Alan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Each chapter is written by an author well qualified in the field. The volume will have a wide appeal to anyone interested in environmental law and human rights.

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This collection of essays explores linkages between the environment and human rights, and responds to the growing debate among activists, lawyers, academics and policy-makers on the legal status of environmental rights in both international and domestic law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780198267898
• ISBN-10: 0198267894
• Artikelnr.: 21634093

Autorenporträt

Alan Boyle is Professor of International Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a joint secretary of the British Branch of the International Law Association and is chair of the branch committee on International Environmental Law and a member of the ILA Committee on water resources law. Michael Anderson in Director of Studies at the British Institute for international and Comparative Law. He was formerly a lecturer in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Michael Anderson: Human Rights Approaches to Environmental
Protection: An Overview
* International Dimensions
* 2: Professor J. G. Merrills: Environmental Protection and Human
Rights: Conceptual Aspects
* 3: Professor Alan Boyle: The Role of International Human Rights Law
and the Protection of the Environment
* 4: Catherine Redgwell: Life, The Universe and Everything: A Critique
of Anthropocentric Rights
* 5: Dr Robin Churchill: Environmental Rights in Existing Human Rights
Treaties
* 6: S. Douglas-Scott: Environmental Rights in the European Union:
Participatory Democracy or Democratic Deficit
* 7: James Cameron and Ruth Mackenzie: Access to Environmental Justice
and Procedural Rights in International Institutions
* National Case Studies
* 8: François du Bois: Social Justice and the Judicial Enforcement of
Environmental Rights and Duties
* 9: Jan Glazewski: Environmental Rights and the New South African
Constitution
* 10: Michael Anderson: Individual Rights to Environmental Protection
in India
* 11: Dr Andrew Harding: Practical Human Rights, NGOs and the
Environment in Malaysia
* 12: Adriana Fabra: Indiginous peoples, Environmental Degradation and
Human Rights: A Case Study
* 13: Edesio Fernandez: Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil
* 14: Martin Lau: Islam and Judicial Activism: Public Address
Litigation under Environmental Protection in the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan