Environmental Law Dimensions of Human Rights

Author: Ben Boer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198736141
Published In: March 2015
Format: Hardback , 288 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Broad-ranging themes assist understanding of the complex relationships between human rights and environmental law
Gives an account of recent developments in Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region
Examines future directions for the development of a human right to a quality environment

How can we guarantee a right to life or a right to health without also guaranteeing a decent environment in which to exercise these rights? It is becoming increasingly obvious that a high quality environment is key to the fundamental human rights of life and health, and associated rights such as the right to clean water, adequate housing, and food.

This book canvasses a range of law and policy issues concerning human rights and the environment. Each chapter examines an aspect of the links between environmental law and human rights in substantive and/or procedural terms, loosely falling into four themes: human rights and the environment in the context of the private sector; analysis of decisions of the European and Inter-American courts in respect of substantive and procedural aspects; human rights and the environment in the Asian region, including the issue of human displacement; and the future direction of human rights and environment law.

Readership: Academics, scholars, and policy makers in the areas of human rights and environmental law and policy.

1.: Natasha Affolder: Square Pegs and Round Holes? Environmental Rights and the Private Sector
2.: Elisa Morgera: Benefit- Sharing as a Bridge between the Environmental and Human Rights Accountability of Multinational Corporations
3.: Riccardo Pavoni: Environmental Jurisprudence of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights: Comparative Insights
4.: Ludwig Krämer: Access to Environmental Justice in the European Courts
5.: Ben Boer: Environmental and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific
6.: Stefan Gruber: Human Displacement and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific
7.: Alan Boyle: Human Rights and the Environment: Where Next?

Professor Ben Boer has been teaching and researching in the field of national and international environmental law since 1979. He specializes in the Asia Pacific region, in the fields of sustainable development, natural and cultural heritage conservation, biodiversity, and human rights and the environment. He was appointed as a Distinguished Professor at Wuhan University Law School in its Research Institute of Environmental Law, and is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. He was the international director of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law based at the University of Ottawa from 2006 to 2008. He was appointed as Deputy Chair of the World Commission on Environmental Law by the Council of IUCN in 2012. He has served as a consultant to various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and foreign aid agencies in a number of countries in the Asia-Pacific region over the past 25 years.

Contributors:
Natasha Affolder is Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the University of British Columbia.
Alan Boyle is Professor of International Law at the University of Edinburgh.
Ben Boer is Distinguished Professor, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University Law School, and Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Law School.
Stefan Gruber is Associate Professor at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research at Kyoto University.
Ludwig Krämer is Visiting Professor at University College London.
Elisa Morgera is Senior Lecturer in Global Environmental Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law.
Riccardo Pavoni is Professor of International and European Law in the Department of Law at the University of Siena.