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Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily
central to both democracy and effective earth system governance
(any environmental-ecological-sustainable democracy). For any
democracy to remain democratic, some aspects must be beyond
democracy and must not be allowed to be subjected to any ordinary
democratic collective choice processes shy of consensus. Real,
established rights constitute a necessary boundary of legitimate
everyday democratic practice. We analyze how human rights are made
democratically and, in particular, how they can be made with
respect to matters environmental, especially matters that have
import beyond the confines of the modern nation state.
Human rights and environmental protection are closely intertwined,
and both are critically dependent on supportive legal opportunity
structures. These legal structures consist of access to the courts;
'legal stock' or the set of available standards and precedents on
which to base litigation; and institutional receptiveness to
potential litigation. These elements all depend on a variety of
social, political, and economic variables. This book critically
analyses the complexities of uniting human rights advocacy and
environmental protection. Bringing together international experts
in the field, it documents the current state of our environmental
human rights knowledge, strategically critical questions that
remain unanswered, and the initiatives required to develop those
answers. It is ideal for researchers in environmental governance
and law, as well as interested practitioners and advanced students
working in public policy, political science and environmental
studies.
Deliberative democracy is well-suited to the challenges of
governing in the Anthropocene. But deliberative democratic
practices are only suited to these challenges to the extent that
five prerequisites - empoweredness, embeddedness, experimentality,
equivocality, and equitableness - are successfully
institutionalized. Governance must be: created by those it
addresses, applicable equally to all, capable of learning from (and
adapting to) experience, rationally grounded, and internalized by
those who adopt and experience it. This book analyzes these five
major normative principles, pairing each with one of the Earth
System Governance Project's analytical problems to provide an
in-depth discussion of the minimal conditions for environmental
governance that can be truly sustainable. It is ideal for scholars
and graduate students in global environmental politics, earth
system governance, and international environmental policy. This is
one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System
Governance Project. For more publications, see
www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
Deliberative democracy is well-suited to the challenges of
governing in the Anthropocene. But deliberative democratic
practices are only suited to these challenges to the extent that
five prerequisites - empoweredness, embeddedness, experimentality,
equivocality, and equitableness - are successfully
institutionalized. Governance must be: created by those it
addresses, applicable equally to all, capable of learning from (and
adapting to) experience, rationally grounded, and internalized by
those who adopt and experience it. This book analyzes these five
major normative principles, pairing each with one of the Earth
System Governance Project's analytical problems to provide an
in-depth discussion of the minimal conditions for environmental
governance that can be truly sustainable. It is ideal for scholars
and graduate students in global environmental politics, earth
system governance, and international environmental policy. This is
one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System
Governance Project. For more publications, see
www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance.
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