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"This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners interested in the protection of the environment and human rights. It questions the synergistic framing of the relationship between environmental protection and human rights by retrieving the numerous conflicts of norms that also underpin and define this relation"--
List of contents
Part I. Constructing Synergies - Framing the Environment - Human Rights Interface: 1. Narratives of environmental and human rights protection - from a 'Pristine Wilderness' to a 'Human Environment'; 2. Horizons of synergy - adjudicating environmental and human rights protection; 3. Constructing and contesting anthropocentric synergies; 4. Countering the dominant frame - an account of trade-offs and tensions; Part II. Conflict Mediation through Universalisation: 5. The general interest as universalisation strategy; 6. Expert knowledge as universalisation strategy.
About the author
Marie-Catherine Petersmann is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg University. Her research focuses on non-anthropocentric normativities and modes of co-existence with nonhumans. It lies at the intersection of legal theory, ecological philosophy, and political ecology. She holds a Ph.D. and LLM in International and European Law from the European University Institute in Florence and an MA in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
Summary
The book questions the framing of the relationship between environmental protection laws and human rights by highlighting the numerous conflicts of norms that underpin and define this relationship.
Foreword
The book illuminates the nature, extent, and political implications of normative conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights.
