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Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability (Hardcover)
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Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability (Hardcover)
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`Human rights and environmental sustainability have virtually
unassailable legitimacy as objectives in the contemporary world.
But do they work with or against each other? In this forensic
dissection of the relationship between the two concepts, Kerri
Woods raises the analytical bar to new heights. The result is a
striking combination of intellectual sophistication and political
sensitivity - not to be missed.' - Andrew Dobson, Keele University,
UK Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability challenges the
assumed harmony between human rights norms and the demands of
environmental sustainability, by addressing conceptual, normative,
and political questions surrounding the interaction between the
two. What is gained and lost by environmental theorists and
activists adopting the language and institutions of human rights?
Is there coherence or tension between the values of human rights
and environmental sustainability? Is the idea of environmental
human rights plausible, and defensible? Whereas previous studies
have considered the interface between human rights and
environmental sustainability on an empirical level, this pioneering
book engages the theoretical and philosophical issues at stake.
Given the significant environmental challenges we face, and the
dominance of human rights as a normative framework, these concerns
demand our attention. This timely work will appeal to scholars in
the fields of environmental politics, philosophy, human rights
theory and global or international ethics, as well as postgraduate
students in environmental politics, and philosophy. Postgraduate
students in human rights - particularly human rights theory -
global or international ethics, and scholars working in
environmental law or human rights law will also find this book
invaluable.
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