Environmental Protection and Human Rights

Abstract

With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment.

Fair and Equitable Benefit-Sharing at the Cross-Roads of the Human Right to Science and International Biodiversity Law

“…It is on these less studied aspects that this article will focus. It is argued that the notion of fair and equitable benefit-sharing, as developed under international biodiversity law, provides a conceptual bridge and concrete lessons learnt to initiate a broader reflection on the interactions and tensions between human rights and the environment [25][26][27] in relation to science.…”

Protection of Right to Environment in International Public Law

“…The Protocol as such enshrines the right to complain about violations of the right to education and the right to freedom of labour only. 19 This approach is weakening the process of practical application of Article 11. However, the right to environment can be protected indirectly by a wider interpretation of other rights enshrined in the American Convention on Human Rights (1969) using the abovementioned complaint procedures as it is going to be explained later in this paper.…”

EU Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and Human Rights Law

“…F. Francioni (2010), D. L. Shelton (2011, and contra seeBoyle (2010). 1038 This would not be so far from the environmental procedural rights already endorsed e.g.in the Aarhus Convention.…”