Human Rights and the Environment

Edited by James R. May, Richard S. Righter Distinguished Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law, USA and President and Founder, Dignity Rights Advocates and Erin Daly, Emerita Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School, USA

• Contents:Introduction: New Dimensions in Human Rights and the EnvironmentJames R. May and Erin DalyPART I LEGALITY1. Advancing Human Rights through the Environmental Rule of LawNaysa Ahuja, John Pendergrass, Arnold Kreilhuber, Elizabeth Mrema and Carl Bruch2. The United Nations Mandate on Human Rights and the EnvironmentJohn H. Knox3. An International Covenant on the Right of Human Beings to the EnvironmentMichel Prieur, Mohamed Ali Mekouar and Erin Daly4. New Frontiers in Environmental Constitutionalism: Environmental Rule of Law and the Sustainable Development GoalsArnold Kreilhuber and Angela Kariuki5. In Defense of Constitutionalizing Environmental RightsRosemary Mwanza6. Human Rights Developments in Global Environmental ConstitutionalismJames R. May and Erin Daly7. Human Rights and Human Benefits: the Implementation GapPaul Martin8. Sovereignty and Environmental Human RightsSam Adelman9. The Human Right to Environmental InformationRebecca Bratspies and Sarah Lamdan10. Implementing Human Rights-Related Environmental Principles with e-Technology Innovation Under the Aarhus ConventionSylvestre-José-Tidiane Manga11. Access to Justice in Environmental Matters: Recent Developments at International and Regional Level and the Repercussions at the National LevelVasiliki (Vicky) KarageorgouPART II INDIVISIBILITY12. Indivisibility of Human and Environmental RightsErin Daly and James R. May13. Identifying Legal Claims to Human Rights and the EnvironmentS. Ravi Rajan, Kirsten Davies and Catherine Iorns Magallanes14. Climate Change and Human RightsMichael Burger and Jessica Wentz15. Climate Change, Mobility, Law and Human RightsChristel Cournil and Emnet Gebre16. Protecting The Right to Food When Implementing Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in Developing CountriesPhilip Coventry17. Human Rights And the Gender Dynamics of Climate ChangeRyan Jeremiah Donato Quan18. Sustainability and Environmental Human RightsChetna Anant Malviya and Ricardo Libel Waldman19. Moral Limitations on Property Rights in the United States as Human RightsBlake Hudson20. Land Use Restrictions and the Right to PropertyGeert Van Hoorick and Lise Vandenhende21. Conflicts between Environmental Protection and Human RightsMarie-Catherine Petersmann22. Biodiversity and Human RightsWahyu Yun Santoso23. The Rights of Nature and a New Constitutional Environmental LawDaniel Bonilla MaldonadoPART III DIGNITY24. Environmental Dignity RightsErin Daly and James R. May25. The Human Right to WaterDaphina Misiedjan and Scott O. McKenzie26. The Human Right to LandscapeMichel Prieur27. Understanding the Nexus of Environment, Energy and Human RightsLeonie Reins28. Business Practices, Human Rights and the EnvironmentStephen Turner29. Environmental Rights of ChildrenKaren E. Makuch30. Indigenous Peoples and Environmental RightsAlexander Solntsev31. Indigenous Peoples and Conservation of BiodiversityRitu Dhingra32. Human Rights Based Environmental Remedy for Allotment Era Legacy in Indian CountryDean B. Suagee33. Human Rights to the City: Urban Ecologies and Indigenous JusticeNatalie Osborne, Anna Carlson & Chris Butler34. Environmental Justice and the Hesitant Embrace of Human RightsDayna Nadine ScottPART IV GEOGRAPHY35. European Court of Human Rights and Environmental RightsOle W. Pedersen36. Vida Digna and Environmental Human Rights in the Inter American SystemJuan Manuel Rivero Godoy37. Human Rights and the Environment in the Middle East and North African Region: Trends, Limitations and OpportunitiesDamilola S. Olawuyi38. Non-Economic Losses and Human Rights in Small Island Developing StatesLisa Benjamin, Adelle Thomas and Michael Stevenson39. The Effectiveness of Access Rights in Sri Lanka in Issues of Environment and DevelopmentCamena Guneratne40. Human Rights and Climate Change Displaced People: Bangladesh PerspectiveMd Abdul Awal Khan41. Evaluation of Human Rights and the Environment in JordanAisa M. Hammadeen42. Human Rights and Environmental Justice in Development Projects in Central Africa: from the Pipeline Chad-Cameroon to the Mbalam-Nabéba Iron Ore ProjectGuy Jules Kounga and Alain Kenmogne Simo43. Human Vulnerability and Environmental Rights: The Endorois Welfare Council v. Kenya CaseAtieno Mboya Samandari44. Legal Personality for the Environment in Aotearoa New ZealandCatherine Iorns MagallanesIndex

‘This book demonstrates the rapidly changing nature of law and the environment in the new millennium and the dynamic capacity for moulding and reshaping legal concepts to enhance environmental protection. It provides an authoritative collection of scholarship that offers new perspectives on human rights and the environmen. This book is quite simply a work that postgraduate students, seasoned academics, judges and jurists will return to as a source of information and imagination.’