Environmental Rights for Future Generations

The book will be of value to academics, lawyers and policy-makers wanting to improve the application of international human rights law to future environmental problems. It suggests new interpretations of human rights law and principles and illustrates how these could be used in relation to specific environmental challenges.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The rationale; 3. The law; 4. The problem; 5. New theory and practice; 6. Unconventional natural resource extraction; 7. Climate adaptation, decarbonisation and geoengineering; 8. Nuclear energy; 9. Conclusion; Index.

About the author

Bridget Lewis is a human rights scholar whose research explores various issues at the intersection of the environment and human rights. Bridget's first book Environmental Human Rights and Climate Change: Current Status and Future Prospects (2018) critically examined the right to a healthy environment in the context of the climate crisis. Her recent research explores the human rights of future generations and the emerging trend of children's climate litigation.

Product details

• Authors: Bridget (Queensland University of Technolog Lewis, Lewis Bridget
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781009574198
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0957419-8
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, LAW / Environmental, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Environment law, Environment, transport and planning law: general, Environment, transport & planning law