The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene

doi:10.1017/9781009039642.011

10 - The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023

Walter F. Baber

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Walter F. Baber and

James R. May

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Walter F. Baber: Affiliation:
California State University, Long Beach
James R. May: Affiliation:
Widener University, Delaware Law School

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The direct and coherent effort to secure environmental human rights is a relatively new feature of the international scene. If an official birthday were needed, the appointment of Professor John Knox as the United Nations’ first Independent Expert on Human Rights and the Environment in 2012 would serve. However, a persuasive argument could be made that the environmental human rights (EHR) movement can trace its lineage back at least to the environmental justice movement (EJ) of the late 1970s (Bullard, 1994). Some might date the movement even earlier or find its precursors elsewhere in the world. I shall not pursue those points here, because my purpose in invoking the environmental justice movement lies not in genealogy but rather comparative anatomy.

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Information: Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene
Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges
, pp. 196 - 212

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009039642.011 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2023

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