Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- The Right to Water
- Rights to Housing and to Land
- The Right to Health
- The Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment
- 10 The Human Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of Nature
- 11 The Right to Environment
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
10 - The Human Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of Nature
Between Advocacy and Reality
from The Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2020
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Cross-Cutting Observations
- Part II Public Good Rights
- The Right to Water
- Rights to Housing and to Land
- The Right to Health
- The Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of the Environment
- 10 The Human Right to a Clean Environment and Rights of Nature
- 11 The Right to Environment
- Part III Status Rights
- Part IV New Technology Rights
- Part V Autonomy and Integrity Rights
- Part VI Governance Rights
- Index
Summary
To acknowledge the direct functional relationship between protection of the environment and the protection and promotion of human rights is to accept a truism. However, the relationship is a complex one and, ever since first formally recognised at the international level in the 1972 Stockholm Declaration, has been liable to being misunderstood. Evidence of this can be seen in the idea that the individual or collective interest in environmental protection is subsumable under a substantive ‘environmental human right’, and that a human right to a clean environment either exists as a matter of current general international law or ought to be recognised as such. While many commentators would agree that such a right does not exist today, support for formally recognising or establishing one cuts across a wide spectrum of international public opinion. Significantly, it appears to have been gaining renewed momentum recently.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of New Human RightsRecognition, Novelty, Rhetoric, pp. 137 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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