Power of Constitutional Rights in Resource Conflicts - Water, Oil and Gold

This book considers the value of constitutional environmental rights in protecting water resources through an examination of the legal strategies utilized by communities engaged in protracted mining conflicts, including oil sands development in the Canadian boreal forest and gold mining in ecologically sensitive, glacier-rich areas of Argentina.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Constitutional Entrenchment and the Quest for Environmental Justice; Chapter 2: Unearthing Rights within the Canadian Environmental Governance Model; Chapter 3: Community Conflicts in the Athabasca Oil Sands and the ‘Shell Game’ of Procedural Rights; Chapter 4: Argentine Constitutional Reform – A ‘Tightly Knit Package’ of Human Rights and Economic Integration; Chapter 5: Is Water Worth More than Gold? – Glacier Protection and Challenges to Gold Mining in San Juan, Argentina; Chapter 6: Prospecting Environmental Rights for an Equitable Resolution to Resource Conflicts

About the author

Dr. Asmaa Khadim is a multidisciplinary expert in law, human rights and resource extraction.

Product details

• Authors: Asmaa Khadim
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.07.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781839989544
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-954-4
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; NATURE / Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Comparative, Science / Environmental Science, comparative law, Environment law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional law and human rights, Drought & Water Supply, Drought and water supply