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Book SynopsisIssues concerning human rights and the environment are of enormous current significance. This book is a touchstone for all those interested in the intersection of human rights and the environment and a potential international right to a healthy environment, including scholars, students, government officials, and representatives of civil society.
Trade Review'In assembling this collection of essays, John H. Knox and Ramin Pejan have sought to deliver 'a continuing conversation on the relationship between human rights and the environment'. They have succeeded admirably in generating a wide-ranging and diverse debate about a topic which loses none of its relevance in a world where climate change and global environmental destruction threaten the future of humanity itself.' Alan Boyle, Edinburgh University
'The right to breathe is surely the most fundamental of all rights, and the state of our planet must be placed at the heart of the human rights issue. The Human Right to a Healthy Environment advances this critical cause and supports the often deadly work of countless environmental defenders around the world. Its message is simple: we have both a moral and a legal imperative to act.' Erik Solheim, Head of UN Environment
Table of Contents1. Introduction John H. Knox and Ramin Pejan; 2. Catalyst for change: evaluating forty years of experience in implementing the right to a healthy environment David R. Boyd; 3. Learning from constitutional environment rights Erin Daly and James R. May; 4. The right to a satisfactory, healthy and sustainable environment in the African regional human rights system Lilian Chenwi; 5. The European Court of Human Rights and international environmental law Ole W. Pedersen; 6. Complexities and uncertainties in matters of human rights and the environment: identifying the judicial role Dinah Shelton; 7. Reasoning up: environmental rights as customary international law Rebecca M. Bratspies; 8. In search of a right to a healthy environment in international law: jus cogens norms Louis J. Kotzé; 9. A human right to a healthy environment? Moral, legal and empirical considerations César Rodríguez-Garavito; 10. Quality control of the right to a healthy environment Marcos Orellana; 11. The Malé formulation of the overarching environmental human right Daniel Magraw and Kristina Wienhöfer; 12. The politics of human rights, the environment, and climate change at the human rights council: towards a universal right to a healthy environment? Marc Limon; 13. Human rights in the climate change regime: from Rio to Paris and beyond Lavanya Rajamani; 14. The right to a healthy environment and climate change: mismatch or harmony? Sumudu Atapattu.
