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Human Rights and the Environment (Hardcover)
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Human Rights and the Environment (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment
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The notion of 'human rights' is perhaps the most weighty and widely
recognized ethical category of our time, while environmental
threats are among the greatest challenges currently facing
civilization. It is unsurprising therefore that questions about and
around the connection between human rights and the environment
abound. Can harms inflicted by the activities of some humans on
others through the medium of the natural environment amount to a
violation of the latter's rights? Do human beings have a right to
an adequate environment? If so, is this 'right' already protected
by existing, well-established rights-such as the right to life, or
to health, for instance? Or do we need to recognize more specific
environmental human rights? Anyway, is the language of human
rights-and are the institutions that purport to guarantee
them-ill-suited to the pursuit of environmental protection? If not,
what can we learn from steps already taken in law and politics to
link the aims of human rights and environmental protection?
Interest in these and other questions has developed at a dizzying
pace over the past two decades. Indeed, serious thinking about
environmental rights is now a vibrant and dynamic area of study and
research, and the sheer scale of the growth in its output makes
this collection especially timely. Moreover, the highest quality
work in the field has emanated from a wide range of different
academic disciplines and perspectives, and has been published in a
variety of largely specialist journals. Drawing on these and other
sources, Tim Hayward has brought together in four volumes canonical
and cutting-edge work to produce an indispensable one-stop 'mini
library'. Human Rights and the Environment is fully indexed and
includes a comprehensive and accessible introduction, newly written
by the editor, which places the collected materials in their
historical and intellectual context. It is an essential reference
collection and is certain to be valued by scholars and students-as
well as by serious policy-makers and practitioners-as a vital
research and pedagogic resource.
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