Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Case Studies
- Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
- 9 The Role of Public Interest Litigation in Realizing Environmental Justice in South Asia
- 10 Children’s Rights or Intergenerational Equity?
- 11 Indigenous Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development
- 12 Indigenous Ancestors
- 13 Water Justice and the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development
- 14 Gender, Indigeneity, and the Search for Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Africa
- 15 Colombo International Financial City
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
- Resource Extraction
- Energy
- Climate Change
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
11 - Indigenous Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development
Lessons from Totonicapán in Guatemala
from Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- Part II Case Studies
- Strategies, Challenges, and Vulnerable Groups
- 9 The Role of Public Interest Litigation in Realizing Environmental Justice in South Asia
- 10 Children’s Rights or Intergenerational Equity?
- 11 Indigenous Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development
- 12 Indigenous Ancestors
- 13 Water Justice and the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development
- 14 Gender, Indigeneity, and the Search for Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Africa
- 15 Colombo International Financial City
- Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes
- Resource Extraction
- Energy
- Climate Change
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
Summary
International environmental law (IEL) has been slow to incorporate the social dimension of sustainable development. In this chapter, we seek to unpack the process of integration of international human rights norms and IEL.1 We focus on the integration of Indigenous rights and IEL, by looking at the recent Escazú Agreement on environmental rights.2 We argue that, while Escazú represents an important step toward integrating human rights and IEL, not all human rights have been equally integrated. Indigenous rights were largely left outside the Escazú Agreement.3 We use a case study from Guatemala to illustrate what this left unprotected, and to shed light on the persisting dominance of Western/Eurocolonial epistemologies in shaping IEL.
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