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Human rights approaches to environmental protection

Author
Boyle A., Anderson M.R. (eds.)
Date
1998
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-072265)
Publisher | Place of publication
Oxford University Press / Clarendon Press | New York, NY, USA
ISBN
0-19-826789-4
Pages
334 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Country/Territory
United Kingdom, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Brazil, Pakistan
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Human rights
Abstract

Contents: (1) Human rights approaches to environmental protection: An overview International dimensions (2) Environmental protection and human rights: Conceptual aspects (3) The role of international human rights law and the protection of the environment (4) Life, the universe and everything: A critique of anthropocentric rights (5) Environmental rights in existing human rights treaties (6) Environmental rights in the European Union: Participatory democracy of democratic deficit (7) Access to environmental justice and procedural rights in international institutions National case studies (8) Social justice and the judicial enforcement of environmental rights and duties (9) Environmental rights and the New South African Constitution (10) Individual rights to environmental protection in India (11) Practical human rights, NGO s and the environment in Malaysia (12) Indigenous peoples, environmental degradation and human rights: A case study (13) Constitutional environmental rights in Brazil (14) Islam and judicial activism: Public address litigation under environmental protection in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan