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A Global Environmental Right

Author : Stephen Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135090254
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Global Environmental Right written by Stephen Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance. Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the existing global legal architecture would address some of the fundamental root causes of environmental degradation. It puts forward a draft global environmental right that would integrate duties for both state and non-state actors within reformed systems of environmental governance and a rational framework for business and industry to adhere to in order that those systems could be made operational. It also examines the failures of the existing international climate change regime and explains how the draft global environmental right could remedy existing deficits. This innovative and interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to policy-makers, students and researchers in international environmental law, climate change, environmental politics and global environmental governance as well as those studying the WTO, international trade law, human rights law, constitutional law and corporate law.

The Environmental Rights Revolution

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774821639
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Environmental Rights Revolution written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.

Global Environmental Constitutionalism

Author : James R. May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022258
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Constitutionalism written by James R. May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting a global trend, scores of countries have affirmed that their citizens are entitled to healthy air, water, and land and that their constitution should guarantee certain environmental rights. This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a proper subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts. This phenomenon, which the authors call environmental constitutionalism, represents the confluence of constitutional law, international law, human rights, and environmental law. National apex and constitutional courts are exhibiting a growing interest in environmental rights, and as courts become more aware of what their peers are doing, this momentum is likely to increase. This book explains why such provisions came into being, how they are expressed, and the extent to which they have been, and might be, enforced judicially. It is a singular resource for evaluating the content of and hope for constitutional environmental rights.

The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights

Author : Joshua C. Gellers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315524406
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Book Synopsis The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights by : Joshua C. Gellers

Download or read book The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights written by Joshua C. Gellers and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design in South Asia, Gellers presents a comprehensive response to this important question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant. Scholars, practitioners, and students of law, political science, and sociology interested in understanding how institutions cope with complex problems like environmental degradation and human rights violations will find this book to be essential reading.

The Human Right to a Healthy Environment

Author : John H. Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421199
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Human Right to a Healthy Environment written by John H. Knox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

Environmental Human Rights and Climate Change

Author : Bridget Lewis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981131960X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Human Rights and Climate Change written by Bridget Lewis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the current status of environmental human rights at the international, regional, and national levels and provides a critical analysis of possible future developments in this area, particularly in the context of a changing climate. It examines various conceptualisations of environmental human rights, including procedural rights relating to the environment, constitutional environmental rights, the environmental dimensions of existing human rights such as the rights to water, health, food, housing and life, and the notion of a stand-alone human right to a healthy environment. The book addresses the topic from a variety of perspectives, drawing on underlying theories of human rights as well as a range of legal, political, and pragmatic considerations. It examines the scope of current human rights, particularly those enshrined in international and regional human rights law, to explore their application and enforceability in relation to environmental problems, identifying potential barriers to more effective implementation. It also analyses the rationale for constitutional recognition of environmental rights and considers the impact that this area of law has had, both in terms of achieving stronger environmental protection and environmental justice, as well as in influencing the development of human rights law more generally. The book identifies climate change as the key environmental challenge facing the global community, as well as a major cause of negative human rights impacts. It examines the contribution that environmental human rights might make to rights-based approaches to climate change.

Environmental Rights

Author : Stephen J. Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108482244
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Rights written by Stephen J. Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

The Business of Global Environmental Governance

Author : David L. Levy
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262621885
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Business of Global Environmental Governance written by David L. Levy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical and empirical accounts of the role of business in shaping international environmental policies.

International Environmental Law and the Global South

Author : Shawkat Alam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107055695
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book International Environmental Law and the Global South written by Shawkat Alam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situating the global poverty divide as an outgrowth of European imperialism, this book investigates current global divisions on environmental policy.

Environmental Protection and Human Rights

Author : Donald K. Anton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498525
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Protection and Human Rights written by Donald K. Anton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment.

A Global Environmental Right

Author : Stephen Turner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135090246
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Global Environmental Right written by Stephen Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance. Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the existing global legal architecture would address some of the fundamental root causes of environmental degradation. It puts forward a draft global environmental right that would integrate duties for both state and non-state actors within reformed systems of environmental governance and a rational framework for business and industry to adhere to in order that those systems could be made operational. It also examines the failures of the existing international climate change regime and explains how the draft global environmental right could remedy existing deficits. This innovative and interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to policy-makers, students and researchers in international environmental law, climate change, environmental politics and global environmental governance as well as those studying the WTO, international trade law, human rights law, constitutional law and corporate law.

Global Environmental Change and Innovation in International Law

Author : Neil Craik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108530311
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Change and Innovation in International Law written by Neil Craik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges to global order posed by rapid environmental change are increasingly recognized as defining features of our time. In this groundbreaking work, the concept of innovation is deployed to explore normative and institutional responses in international law to such environmental change by addressing two fundamental themes: first, whether law can foresee, prevent, and adapt to environmental transformations; and second, whether international legal responses to social, economic, and technological innovation can appropriately reflect the evolving needs of contemporary societies at national and international scales. Using a range of case studies, the contributions to this collection track innovation - descriptively, normatively, and as a process in and of itself - to explain international environmental law's functionality in the Anthropocene. This book should be read by anyone interested in the critical intersection of environmental and international law.

Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change

Author : Paul G. Harris
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351369598
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change written by Paul G. Harris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change. Many of the most profound impacts of global environmental change, and climate change in particular, will occur in the oceans. It is vital that we consider the role of marine governance in adapting to and mitigating these impacts. This comprehensive handbook provides a thorough review of current thinking about marine environmental governance, including law and policy, in the context of global environmental change. Initial chapters describe international law, regimes, and leadership in marine environmental governance, in the process considering how existing regimes for climate change and the oceans should and can be coordinated. This is followed by an exploration of the role of non-state actors, including scientists, nongovernmental organisations, and corporations. The next section includes a collection of chapters highlighting governance schemes in a variety of marine environments and regions, including coastlines, islands, coral reefs, the open ocean, and regional seas. Subsequent chapters examine emerging issues in marine governance, including plastic pollution, maritime transport, sustainable development, environmental justice, and human rights. Providing a definitive overview, the Routledge Handbook of Marine Governance and Global Environmental Change is suitable for advanced students in marine and environmental governance, environmental law and policy, and climate change, as well as practitioners, activists, stakeholders, and others concerned about the world’s oceans and seas.

Global Environmental Policy

Author : Charles H. Eccleston
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439847673
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Global Environmental Policy written by Charles H. Eccleston and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event. Focusing on development of proactive policies, Global Environment Policy: Concepts, Principles, and Practice provides the essential scientific and socioeconomic framework for formulating pragmatic and comprehensive environmental policies. It discusses topics of interest to American and international audiences. Beginning with basic concepts, the book proceeds successively on to more advanced principles, theories, and practices for developing and implementing comprehensive environmental policy solutions. Topics are introduced in a logical, yet connected, user-friendly manner. Using practical case studies and examples, the book illustrates both the power and limitations of theoretical approaches. It defines the scope and nature of the environmental policy problem, outlining its origins and evolution, and introduces the policy frameworks of the United Nations, European Union, and the United States. Each chapter begins with a case study and ends with a problem set; the questions are designed to elicit practical and critical thinking. The book ends with two capstone problems that exemplify nearly every major topic and aspect presented in this book. Upon completion, students should possess the competency required to examine a real world problem, evaluate it in terms of the concepts, principles, and tools described throughout the book, and develop a practical policy solution for resolving that problem.

Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law

Author : M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848447310
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law written by M. Fitzmaurice and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . . . Highly recommended as a key contribution to the literature. It fulfils its title in being contemporaneous, but more than that it also provides a subtle critique of how many international environmental lawyers have approached their subject. . . this book will be an essential read for anyone interested in the subject. British Yearbook of International Law This book presents an interesting, scholarly read. . . an invaluable reference asset, to law students, researchers, policy makers and non-state actors with interest in environmental regulation and governance. Priscilla Schwartz, Journal of Environmental Law This is a thoughtful and well-researched study of current issues in international environmental law. Malgosia Fitzmaurice s collection of essays is a welcome addition to the literature in this rapidly developing area of the law: it provides perspective on the environmental law issues discussed, but always against the background of the broader concepts and principles of general international law. James Crawford, University of Cambridge, UK The central aim of this insightful book is to illuminate how many concepts in international environmental law such as the precautionary principle and sustainable development are taken for granted. These problematic issues are very much still evolving and subject to heated debate between scholars as well as between states. The author explores these controversies viewing them as a positive development within a field that is in a constant state of flux. Areas discussed include the convergence of human rights with environmental issues and the quest for the human right to a clean environment. The book also clearly demonstrates that international environmental law cannot be analysed in isolation since it greatly influences the development of general international law. Taking full account of the most recent decisions of international courts and tribunals as well as the most up-to-date scholarly analysis, Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law is a timely and important resource for legal scholars, under- and post-graduates and practitioners alike.

Human Rights and the Environment

Author : Linda Hajjar Leib
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9004188649
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and the Environment written by Linda Hajjar Leib and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights.

Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature

Author : Linda Etchart
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030815219
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature written by Linda Etchart and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world’s remaining rainforests. Indigenous peoples are essential as guardians of the world’s wild places for the maintenance of ecosystems and the prevention of climate change. The Amazonian/Andean indigenous philosophies of sumac kawsay/suma qamaña (buen vivir) were the inspiration for the incorporation of the Rights of Nature into the Ecuadorian and Bolivian constitutions of 2008 and 2009. Yet despite the creation of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2000), and the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007), indigenous peoples have been marginalized from intergovernmental environmental negotiations. Indigenous environment protectors’ lives are in danger while the Amazon rainforests continue to burn. By the third decade of the 21st century, the dawn of “woke” capitalism was accompanied by the expansion of ethical investment, with BlackRock leading the field in the “greening” of investment management, while Big Oil sought a career change in sustainable energy production. The final chapters explain the confluence of forces that has resulted in the continued expansion of the extractive frontier into indigenous territory in the Amazon, including areas occupied by peoples living in voluntary isolation. Among these forces are legal and extracurricular payments made to individuals, within indigenous communities and in state entities, and the use of tax havens to deposit unofficial payments made to secure public contracts. Solutions to loss of biodiversity and climate change may be found as much in the transformation of global financial and tax systems in terms of transparency and accountability, as in efforts by states, intergovernmental institutions and private foundations to protect wild areas through the designation of national parks, through climate finance, and other “sustainable” investment strategies.