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1 online resource (203 pages) |
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Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
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Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; A Global Environmental Right; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The state of degradation of the planet's environment, the impact upon human rights and the current status of the development of environmental rights; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The state of the planet's environment and its relationship with human rights; 2.2.1 Natural capital; 2.2.2 Water Use; 2.2.3 Land use, land-use conversion and degradation; 2.2.4 Forests; 2.2.5 Climate change; 2.2.6 Fisheries |
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2.2.7 Coral reefs and mangroves2.2.8 Biodiversity; 2.2.9 Poverty; 2.2.10 Population; 2.3 The response of human rights to environmental degradation; 2.3.1 The right to life; 2.3.2 The right to health; 2.3.3 The right to water; 2.3.4 The right to food; 2.3.5 The right to housing or shelter; 2.3.6 The right to property; 2.4 The development of environmental rights internationally; 2.4.1 Procedural environmental rights; 2.4.2 Substantive environmental rights; 2.4.3 Developments within the United Nations; 2.5 Conclusion |
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3 Global environmental governance, the global legal architecture and the root causes of environmental degradation3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Existing approaches to global environmental governance; 3.2.1 The Westphalian system; 3.2.2 'Soft law' and 'hard law'; 3.2.3 Compliance; 3.2.4 A World Environment Organization?; 3.2.5 An expanded approach to international environmental law; 3.3 The development of a global legal architecture; 3.3.1 Corporations; 3.3.2 Trade; 3.3.3 States; 3.4 Conclusions; 3.4.1 The global legal architecture |
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3.4.2 The relationship between the global legal architecture and global environmental governance3.4.3 To what extent can human rights respond to this global legal architecture?; 4 A Global Environmental Right: Draft with commentary; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Background; 4.3 Draft Global Environmental Right with commentary; Preamble; 4.3.1 Article 1 -- Statement of Environmental Duties; 4.3.2 Article 2 -- Integration of Duties; 4.3.3 Article 3 -- Definitions; 4.3.4 Article 4 -- National Constitutions and Governmental Duties Towards the Environment |
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4.3.5 Article 5 -- Annual State Environmental Accounting4.3.6 Article 6 -- Duties of Individuals Towards the Environment; 4.3.7 Article 7 -- Corporate Environmental Duty; 4.3.8 Article 8 -- Annual Corporate Environmental Accounting; 4.3.9 Article 9 -- Consumption, Use and Disposal of Goods and Products; 4.3.10 Article 10 -- Registered Suppliers of Direct Environmental Compensatory Offsets (DECOs); 4.3.11 Article 11 -- Registered Suppliers of Environmental Insurance; 4.3.12 Article 12 -- International Corporation Registration Body; 4.3.13 Article 13 -World Environment Organization |
| Summary |
The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance. Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the existing global le |
| Notes |
4.3.14 Article 14 -World Trade Law |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135090258 |
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1135090254 |
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