Book contents
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- 2 Protecting Environmental Human Rights for Future Generations
- 3 Taking Environmental Rights in the Anthropocene Seriously
- 4 The Quest for International Recognition of Environmental Human Rights
- 5 Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene
- 6 Local Governments, Climate Action, and Sustainability
- 7 Advancing Environmental Rights through Indigenous Rights
- 8 The Obligation to Curb Carbon Emissions
- 9 Human Rights in the Anthropocene, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Significance of SDG 17, “Partnerships for the Goals”
- 10 The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Conclusion
Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
Book contents
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
- 2 Protecting Environmental Human Rights for Future Generations
- 3 Taking Environmental Rights in the Anthropocene Seriously
- 4 The Quest for International Recognition of Environmental Human Rights
- 5 Socioeconomic and Cultural Rights and the Anthropocene
- 6 Local Governments, Climate Action, and Sustainability
- 7 Advancing Environmental Rights through Indigenous Rights
- 8 The Obligation to Curb Carbon Emissions
- 9 Human Rights in the Anthropocene, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Significance of SDG 17, “Partnerships for the Goals”
- 10 The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
As the chapters of this book recount, the last few decades have witnessed increasing communion between the fields of environmental law and human rights. Traditionally, the field of environmental law serves to achieve desired ecological conditions, such as clean air, water, and land and is captured by more than 500 international agreements, many of the world’s constitutions, and in countless laws and regulations and local ordinances around the world. Human rights, on the other hand, serve to advance desired human conditions, including civil rights such as voting and socioeconomic rights such as health or education, again through a combination of international, regional, and municipal legal pproaches. Yet what work can the legal order do to address the Anthropocene?
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- Environmental Human Rights in the AnthropoceneConcepts, Contexts, and Challenges, pp. 213 - 221Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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