Environmental protection and human rights

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ISBN	9780521747103 (pbk.)
Call Number	K3585 A634 2011
Author	Anton, Donald K.
Title	Environmental protection and human rights / Donald K. Anton and Dinah L. Shelton
Imprint	New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011.
Physical	xxxviii, 986 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents Note	Law and the environment --The environment as a human rights issue --An introduction to human rights origins and theory --The international protection of human rights --International human rights institutions and procedures --Substantive human rights --Procedural human rights andthe environment --Indigenous peoples, rights and theenvironment --Humanitarian crises: armed conflicts andother disasters --Environmental rights andinternational finance: the World Bank example --Humanrights, the environment, and corporate accountability --Case studies.
Summary	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.
Subject	Environmental law, International
Subject	Human rights
Coorperative Author	Shelton, Dinah
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300 ^axxxviii, 986 p. ;^c27 cm.

504 ^aIncludes bibliographical references and index.

505 8 ^aLaw and the environment -- ^tThe environment as a human rights issue --^tAn introduction to human rights origins and theory --^tThe international protection of human rights --^tInternational human rights institutions and procedures --^tSubstantive human rights --^tProcedural human rights andthe environment --^tIndigenous peoples, rights and theenvironment --^tHumanitarian crises: armed conflicts andother disasters --^tEnvironmental rights andinternational finance: the World Bank example --^tHumanrights, the environment, and corporate accountability --^tCase studies.

520 ^a^aWith 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.

650 0^aEnvironmental law, International 0^aHuman rights

700 1 ^aShelton, Dinah

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