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Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 127.00More than 300 million people in over 70 countries make up the world?s indigenous populations. Yet despite ever-growing pressures on their lands, environment and way of life through outside factors such as climate change and globalization, their rights in these and other respects are still not fully recognized in international law. In this incisive... more...
Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 58.50The traditional concept of social justice is increasingly being challenged by the notion of a humankind that spans current and future generations. This book, with a foreword by Roger Brownsword, is the first systematic examination of how the rights of the unborn and future generations are handled in common law and under international legal instruments.... more...
Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 125.00Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means. Following on from her previous explorations of environmental... more...
Globalization, Violence and World Governance
BRILL 2011; US$ 141.00In this work Laura Westra draws our attention to the failure of international law to promote and protect the rights of society in the face of the ravages of neoliberal agendas in an era of globalization. This book outlines how international law is perhaps a misnomer, and at its core there is a great distance between laws as they are written and laws... more...
Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 127.00'The ecological challenge demands a paradigm shift in our thinking about the human-environment relation. Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity provides a ?state of the art? account of work on ecological integrity - and offers a compelling vision for the future.? Derek Bell, Senior Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology,... more...
Human Health and Ecological Integrity
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00The connection between environment and health has been well studied and documented, particularly by the World Health Organization. It is now being included in some legal instruments, although for the most part caselaw does not explicitly make that connection. Neither the right to life nor the rights to health or to normal development are actually... more...
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