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
10 - The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for 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
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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- Environmental Human Rights in the AnthropoceneConcepts, Contexts, and Challenges, pp. 196 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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