Environmental human rights and climate change : current status and future prospects / Bridget Lewis.

Titolo

Environmental human rights and climate change : current status and future prospects / Bridget Lewis.

Descrizione

Title from PDF of title page (viewed, May 10, 2019)
This book examines the current status of environmental human rights at the international, regional, and national levels and provides a critical analysis of possible future developments in this area, particularly in the context of a changing climate. It examines various conceptualisations of environmental human rights, including procedural rights relating to the environment, constitutional environmental rights, the environmental dimensions of existing human rights such as the rights to water, health, food, housing and life, and the notion of a stand-alone human right to a healthy environment. The book addresses the topic from a variety of perspectives, drawing on underlying theories of human rights as well as a range of legal, political, and pragmatic considerations. It examines the scope of current human rights, particularly those enshrined in international and regional human rights law, to explore their application and enforceability in relation to environmental problems, identifying potential barriers to more effective implementation. It also analyses the rationale for constitutional recognition of environmental rights and considers the impact that this area of law has had, both in terms of achieving stronger environmental protection and environmental justice, as well as in influencing the development of human rights law more generally. The book identifies climate change as the key environmental challenge facing the global community, as well as a major cause of negative human rights impacts. It examines the contribution that environmental human rights might make to rights-based approaches to climate change

Editore

Springer,

Data

Autore di contributo subordinato

SpringerLink (Online service)

Relazione

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-1960-0

Formato

1 online resource (x, 250 p.)

Lingua

eng

Tipo

a

Diritti di accesso

Publisher's Web site. Access restricted to the University of Catania community.

DOI

10.1007/978-981-13-1960-0 doi

ISBN

9789811319594
9789811319600 (electronic bk.)
981131960X (electronic bk.)
9789811319594
9811319596
9789811319594

Files

2018_Book_EnvironmentalHumanRightsAndCli.pdf

Citation

Lewis, Bridget., “Environmental human rights and climate change : current status and future prospects / Bridget Lewis.,” Lex e-books - Collana, ultimo accesso il 23 novembre 2024, https://epub.unict.it/omeka/items/show/154.