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Jean-Claude N. Ashukem, Jean-Claude N Ashukem
Handbook on Human Rights to a Healthy Environment - International, Regional, and Comparative Pathways for Policy Intervention in Cameroon
English · Hardback
Will be released 21.10.2025
Description
This unique handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the constitutional human right to a healthy environment in Cameroon and Africa. It explores Cameroonian and African regulatory and policy interventions regarding environmental protection, systematically addressing a broad range of sub-topics in a rich discussion of the various dimensions of environmental protection.
This handbook is timely, relevant, and adds to the limited existing literature on constitutional environmental governance in Cameroon and in Africa, offering fresh and extensive insights into environmental protection in the region and sharing lessons that can be applied to other African countries.
This handbook is undoubtedly a valuable reference source for scholars of human rights, environmental protection and related fields, and a practical guide for a range of actors in environmental governance, such as state actors and non-governmental organizations in Cameroon and Africa in general.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Normative Conceptual Contour of the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment – Past, Present and Future (Jean-Claude N. Ashukem).- Part I: Internationalism.- Chapter 2: Implications for Africa and Cameroon Arising from the United Nations Resolution on the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment (Jean-Claude N Ashukem, Tinashe Kondo and Chidinma Therese Odgahara).- Part II: Regionalism 1 (African Human Rights Systems and Approaches).- Chapter 3: A Call for the Adoption of a Protocol to Article 24 of the African Charter of Human on the Rights to a Satisfactory and Healthy Environment. (Valery M. Fomchang and Jean-Claude N. Ashukem).- Chapter 4: Right of the Indigenous Peoples to a Healthy and Satisfactory Human Environment and the Highest Attainable Level of Health: Land Degradation and Deforestation in Africa (Olaniyi Felix Olayinka).- Chapter 5: Sustainable Development, Global Waste Discourse and the Circular Economy Alternative: Implications for Human Rights-Based Approach to a Healthy Environment in Africa (Oladejo Olowu).- Chapter 6: The Right to a Healthy Environment in Natural Resource Impacted Communities: An Assessment of the Scorecard of the African Human Rights Charter in West (Olalekan A. Bello).- Chapter 7: Towards the Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Africa: A Critical Review of the Maputo Convention – 2003 to 2023 (Jean-Claude N. Ashukem).- Chapter 8: The Rights of African Children in the Face of Climate Crisis (Samrawit Getaneh).- Chapter 9: The Protection of Humans in the Context of Population Displacement in Africa: An Analysis of United Nations and African Human Rights Systems (Francois Bokona).- Part III: Legal Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon.- Chapter 10: The Constitutional Human Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment in Cameroon: The Road Not Taken (Wabi Wilson and Etong Armand Brice).- Chapter 11: The Justiciability of the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon (Pierrette Essama-Mekongo).- Chapter 12: Environmental Protection Policy and its Influence on the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon (Agbor W. Mbeng).- Chapter 13: The Environmental Rights of Minorities in Peril: Are Indigenous Peoples Entitled to the Constitutional Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon? (Abilabi Colbert Nicko).- Chapter 14:The Role of competition law and Policy in Promoting the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon (Tinashe Kondo).- Chapter 15: Does the constitutional right to a healthy environment protects the environmental rights of children in Cameroon?
(Jean-Claude N. Ashukem).- Chapter 16: Green Growth and the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon’s Economic Policy (Christophe Dongmo).- Part IV: State Actors.- Chapter 17: Determining the Role of Decentralized Local Councils in Solid Waste Management and the Protection of the Constitutional HumanRight to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon (Jean-Claude N. Ashukem).- Chapter 18: The Constitutional Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Safe Environment and the Attitudes of the Courts towards Claims for its Enforcement in Cameroon, Kenya and South Africa: A Comparative Study (Gideon Fosoh Ngwome).- Chapter 19: Comparative State Responsibility Towards the Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment: Critical Reflections from Cameroon and Uganda (Smith Naseri Edumebong).- Part V: Substantive Environmental Rights Protection in Cameroon.- Chapter 20: Plastic Pollution and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: A Legal Appraisal (Louis Fung Njuh & Gideon Fosoh Ngwome).- Chapter 21: The Right to a Healthy Environment and Wetland Ecosystems Degradation in Cameroon: Insight into Legal Solutions to Curb this Phenomenon (Tabe Napoleon Tanjong).- Chapter 22: The Rights to Health and the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment under Cameroonian Law: A Legal Appraisal (ValeryM. Fomchang).- Chapter 23: Water Resource Management and the Protection of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment under Cameroonian Law (Serges Roméo Fotsing Takam and Masah Tise Vigiline).- Chapter 24: Towards addressing climate change through the human rights to a healthy environment in Cameroon (Justin Monyping Ater).- Chapter 25: Interrogating the Legal Protection of Persons Affected by Climate Change Displacement within the Context of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon (Smith Naseri Edumebong).- Chapter 26: Towards the Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment: Local Knowledge and Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife and Indigenous Livelihoods on Mount Cameroon (Vivian Njole Ntoko & Matthias Schmidt).- Chapter 27: In Forging the Protection of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Exploring the Contentious Politics of the Right to Development and Environmental Protection from the Perspective of Land-Grabbing in Cameroon (Jean-Claude N. Ashukem).- Chapter 28: The Right to a Healthy Environment and the Conservation of Wildlife and the Forest in Cameroon: Prospects and Constraints (Dinsi Stanley Chung).- Part VI: Procedural Environmental Rights in Cameroon.- Chapter 29: Access to Justice and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Exploring the Role of the Courts in Environmental Adjudication in Cameroon (Jean-Claude N Ashukem).- Chapter 30: The Extractive Industry and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: The Role of EIA Regimes (Ebun Abolarin).- Chapter 31: Interrogating the Potential of EIA Regime in Enhancing the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: Perspective from the Bagyeli Community (Stephen Nounah).- Part VII: Intersection of the Environment with Other Challenges.- Chapter 32: Human Rights, the Environment and Conflict: Promoting the Protection of the Constitutional Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon During Armed Conflict.- Chapter 33: Exploring the Links between Corruption, Foreign Investment and the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon and Zambia: A Comparative Perspective (Tinashe Kondo).- Chapter 34: A Multijurisdictional Exploration of the Politics of Environmental Protection from a Right to Development Dimension in Africa (Caiphas Brewsters Soyapi).-Chapter 35: The Potential of New Technologies in Environmental Conservation: A Look at South Africa and Cameroon (Sagwadi Mabunda and Rhulani Thobakgale).- Chapter 36: Promoting the Right to a Healthy Environment through the Lens of Environmental Justice: Comparative Perspectives from Burkina Faso, Canada, and Nigeria (Sidnoma Nita Belemsobgo; Aristide Belemsobgo & Touwendé Roland Ouédraogo).- Chapter 37: Limits of Transnational Litigation Over Environmental Rights Violations in Nigeria: Perspectives from Royal Dutch Shell and Related Cases (Aaron Olaniyi. Salau).- Chapter 38: The Right of Nature and Environmental Conservation in Uganda (Charlotte Kabaseke).- Chapter 39: Enforcement of Littering Law and its Implications for the Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment in Uganda (Emmanuel Kasimbazi).- Chapter 40: Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment for Climate Action in Zimbabwe through a Human Rights-Based Approach (Amanda T Mugadza and Simbiso Zhou).- Chapter 41: The Extractive Industry Regulation and the Protection of the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Mozambique (Almeida Machava).
About the author
Jean-Claude Ashukem, is a Senior Lecturer, Claude Leon Chair in Earth Justice and Stewardship, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and also co-editor of Human Rights and the Environment in Africa: A Research Companion (Routledge, 2023); and Domestic and Regional Environmental Laws and Policies in Africa: A Research Companion (Routledge, 2023). His research lies in the intersectionality between human rights and environmental protection with a specific focus on Africa. He serves on the editorial board of GNOSI: An Interdisciplianry Journal on Human Theory and Praxis - please use this also for the other handbook.
Summary
This unique handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the constitutional human right to a healthy environment in Cameroon and Africa. It explores Cameroonian and African regulatory and policy interventions regarding environmental protection, systematically addressing a broad range of sub-topics in a rich discussion of the various dimensions of environmental protection.
This handbook is timely, relevant, and adds to the limited existing literature on constitutional environmental governance in Cameroon and in Africa, offering fresh and extensive insights into environmental protection in the region and sharing lessons that can be applied to other African countries.
This handbook is undoubtedly a valuable reference source for scholars of human rights, environmental protection and related fields, and a practical guide for a range of actors in environmental governance, such as state actors and non-governmental organizations in Cameroon and Africa in general.
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