The Human Right to a Healthy Environment Edited by John H. Knox and Ramin Pejan.
[electronic resource] /
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 290 p.)
Table of contents: Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Catalyst for change: evaluating forty years of experience in implementing the right to a healthy environment Chapter 3. Learning from constitutional environmental rights Chapter 4. The right to a satisfactory, healthy, and sustainable environment in the African regional human rights system Chapter 5. The European Court of Human Rights and international environmental law Chapter 6. Complexities and uncertainties in matters of human rights and the environment: identifying the judicial role Chapter 7. Reasoning up: environmental rights as customary international law Chapter 8. In search of a right to a healthy environment in international law: jus cogens norms Chapter 9. A human right to a healthy environment?: moral, legal, and empirical considerations Chapter 10. Quality control of the right to a healthy environment Chapter 11. The politics of human rights, the environment, and climate change at the Human Rights Council: toward a universal right to a healthy environment? Chapter 12. The male ́formulation of the overarching environmental human right / Daniel Magraw and Kristina Wienhöfer ; Appendix A: Malé declaration on the human dimension of global climate change Chapter 13. Human rights in the climate change regime: from Rio to Paris and beyond Chapter 14. The right to a healthy environment and climate change : mismatch or harmony?
Includes bibliography and index.
"Two of the great achievements of international law have been to define the human rights integral to a life of dignity, freedom, and equality, and to develop rules and institutions that protect the global environment. Because these two areas of the law developed separately and at different times, the relationship between them was at first unclear"