Richard P. Hiskes

The Human Right to a Green Future

Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780521696142
• ISBN-10: 0521696143
• Artikelnr.: 26009670

Autorenporträt

Richard P. Hiskes is Professor of Political Science and Senior Political Theorist at the University of Connecticut. He is the Editor of the Journal of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Minor. He is the author or co-author of four other books, most recently of Democracy, Risk and Community: Environmental Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism (1998). Professor Hiskes has published work in a variety of topics within political theory, human rights theory, environmental ethics, and science and technology policy. He has published articles in many journals, including Review of Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, Public Affairs Quarterly, Human Rights Review, Hume Studies, Women and Politics, Policy Studies, and others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Environmental human rights and intergenerational justice
2. Emergent human rights, identity, harms and duties
3. Reflexive reciprocity and intergenerational environmental justice
4. Cosmopolitan ethics, communal reciprocity, and global environmentalism
5. Toward a global consensus on environmental human rights
6. Human rights as inheritance: instituting intergenerational environmental justice
7. Conclusion: environmental justice and the emergent future of human rights.