Environmental Law Dimensions of Human Rights

A high quality environment is coming to be regarding as a necessary prerequisite for the enjoyment of some of the most fundamental human rights-such as the rights to life and health. The precise recognition of a 'right to environment' has not yet been settled and the essays in the book address this and related questions from different perspectives.

List of contents

1. Natasha Affolder: Square Pegs and Round Holes? Environmental Rights and the Private Sector; 2. Elisa Morgera: Benefit- Sharing as a Bridge between the Environmental and Human Rights Accountability of Multinational Corporations; 3. Riccardo Pavoni: The Environmental Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights: A Comparative Perspective; 4. Ludwig Kramer: Access to Environmental Justice in the European Courts; 5. Ben Boer: Environmental and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific; 6. Stefan Gruber: Human Displacement and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific; 7. Alan Boyle: Human Rights and the Environment: Where Next?

About the author

Professor Ben Boer has been teaching and researching in the field of national and international environmental law since 1979. He specializes in the Asia Pacific region, in the fields of sustainable development, natural and cultural heritage conservation, biodiversity, and human rights and the environment. He was appointed as a Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University Law School in its Research Institute of Environmental Law, and is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. He was the international director of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law based at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2008. He was appointed as Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law by the Council of IUCN in 2012. He has served as a consultant to various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and foreign aid agencies in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region over the past 25 years.

Summary

A high quality environment is coming to be regarding as a necessary prerequisite for the enjoyment of some of the most fundamental human rights-such as the rights to life and health. The precise recognition of a 'right to environment' has not yet been settled and the essays in the book address this and related questions from different perspectives.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Boer, Ben (Distinguished Professor Boer
• Assisted by: Ben Boer (Editor), Ben (Distinguished Professor Boer (Editor), Boer Ben (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2015
• EAN: 9780198736141
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873614-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law; Collected Courses of the Acade; Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law; Collected Courses of the Acade
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; NATURE / Ecology, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social impact of environmental issues, Human rights, civil rights, Environment law, Law: Human rights and civil liberties