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Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene

Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene

Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene

Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
Walter F. Baber , California State University, Long Beach
James R. May , Widener University, Delaware Law School
March 2023
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    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.

    • Describes the multiple institutional contexts within with environmental human rights are pursued, including at the international, national and local levels of government
    • Explores the challenges to environmental human rights, and describes the concerns encountered by indigenous communities, climate sustainability actors, and those seeking to integrate human rights awareness into the pursuit of Sustainable Development Goals
    • Discusses the importance of environmental human rights framings, the interests of future generations, and the right to the environment as a vital human interest

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    March 2023
    Hardback
    9781316510773
    380 pages
    250 × 172 × 16 mm
    0.61kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene Michele Scobie
    • 2. Protecting Future Generations' Environmental Human Rights, Bridget Lewis
    • 3. Taking Environmental Rights in the Anthropocene Seriously – the Case of Biodiversity, Peter Gottschalk
    • 4. Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene José Juste Ruiz, Maira del Mar Requena Quesada
    • 5. Human Rights and Wrongs: Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism, James R. May
    • 6. Pressure from Below: Subnational Governance, Human Rights, and Environmental Right Martha F. Davis
    • 7. Advancing Environmental Rights through Indigenous Rights, Margot Hurlbert
    • 8. Achieving (Climatic) Sustainability (as a Fundamental Right): Any Room for the Polar Regions? Ottavio Quirico
    • 9. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the Significance of Goal 17 'Partnerships for the Goals' Emily S. Reid
    • 10. The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene Walter F. BabeR
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Michele Scobie, Bridget Lewis, Peter Gottschalk, José Juste Ruiz, Maira del Mar Requena Quesada, James R. May, Martha F. Davis, Margot Hurlbert, Ottavio Quirico, Emily S. Reid, Walter F. Baber

    • Editors
    • Walter F. Baber

      Walter F. Baber is a professor in the Graduate Center for Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and an expert in environmental law and politics. His book, Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence (with Robert V. Bartlett, Cambridge University Press, 2009) won the 2011 I.S.A. Book Award for international ethics. Baber was previously a Fulbright Scholar in Italy, Austria and twice in Sweden.

    • James R. May

      James R. May is one of the world's leading authorities on Environmental Human Rights. He has published numerous related texts, including Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Global Environmental Constitutionalism, and Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Indivisibility, Dignity, Legality and Geography (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019). He has received many awards, including from the American Bar Association, Sierra Club, American Canoe Association, Widener University, and Pace University.

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