Constitutional Environmental Rights

• Introduction ; 1. The Case for a Human Right to an Adequate Environment ; 2. Constitutionalizing the Right to an Adequate Environment: Challenges of Principle ; 3. The Challenge of Effective Implementation ; 4. Environmental Rights as Democratic Rights ; 5. Is a Constitutional Right Necessary? A European Perspective ; 6. Environmental Rights and Environmental Justice: A Global Perspective ; Conclusion

This well-written book will please readers who want a carefully reasoned normative explanation for why a good environment must be considered a fundamental human right and why that right should be included in constitutions...the work is exemplary scholarship. Essential.