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