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Author Leib, Linda Hajjar.

Title Human Rights and the Environment : Philosophical, Theoretical and Legal Perspectives
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Series Queen Mary Studies in International Law ; 3
Queen Mary studies in international law ; 3.
Contents Introduction -- PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE -- Chapter one. Historical and philosophical underpinnings of the environmental movement -- Chapter Two. An overview of the characteristics and controversies of human rights -- PART TWO: THE CONCEPTUALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES AS HUMAN RIGHTS -- Chapter Three. Theorisation of the various human rights approaches to environmental issues -- Chapter Four. Reconfiguration of the human rights system in light of sustainable development and the two-level conceptualisation of environmental rights
Summary The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights
Notes This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Environmental law, International.
Environmental law.
Human rights.
Law.
Human Rights
LAW -- Environmental.
LAW -- Public.
LAW -- Environmental.
Environmental law
Environmental law, International
Human rights
Law
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004189939
9789004189935