Human Rights and the Environment: Philosophical, Theoretical and Legal Perspectives (Queen Mary Studies in International Law, 3)

This book explores the philosophical, theoretical and legal bases that underpin the linkage between human rights and the environment. Such linkage, grounded in reality, is an innovative way of addressing environmental issues through the lens of a well-established international human rights system. The book argues that a new set of environmental rights is gradually forging its way into international law and suggests a re-configuration of the human rights system in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights. In doing so, two sets of concepts are considered: first, the possibility of a rapprochement between environmental ethics and the human rights doctrine and, second, the theoretical and practical links among the concepts of development, democracy, environment and sustainable development. Historical And Philosophical Underpinnings Of The Environmental Movement -- An Overview Of The Characteristics And Controversies Of Human Rights -- Theorisation Of The Various Human Rights Approaches To Environmental Issues -- Reconfiguration Of The Human Rights System In Light Of Sustainable Development And The Two-level Conceptualisation Of Environmental Rights. By Linda Hajjar Leib. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [163]-175) And Index. 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.