Environmental Rights for Future Generations

Name: Environmental Rights for Future Generations
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009574198
Price: 1324.05 HKD
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Author: Bridget Lewis
ISBN: 9781009574198

By Bridget Lewis

Cambridge University Press October 2025

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781009574198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book presents readers with a new theory and practice of international human rights law that is designed to improve its protection of the environmental rights of future generations. Arguing that international law is currently unable to safeguard future generations from foreseeable environmental harm, Bridget Lewis proposes that the law needs to be reformed in the interests of achieving intergenerational justice.

The book draws on different theories of intergenerational responsibility to articulate a fresh approach, revising both substantive principles of environmental rights and procedural rules of admissibility and standing. It looks at several case studies to explore how the proposed new approach would apply in relation to contemporary environmental challenges like fracking, deep seabed mining, nuclear energy, decarbonisation and geoengineering.

1. Introduction

2. The rationale

3. The law

4. The problem

5. New theory and practice

6. Unconventional natural resource extraction

7. Climate adaptation, decarbonisation and geoengineering

8. Nuclear energy

9. Conclusion

Index

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