Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges

Description

Human rights and environmental protection are closely intertwined, and both are critically dependent on supportive legal opportunity structures. These legal structures consist of access to the courts; 'legal stock' or the set of available standards and precedents on which to base litigation; and institutional receptiveness to potential litigation. These elements all depend on a variety of social, political, and economic variables. This book critically analyses the complexities of uniting human rights advocacy and environmental protection. Bringing together international experts in the field, it documents the current state of our environmental human rights knowledge, strategically critical questions that remain unanswered, and the initiatives required to develop those answers. It is ideal for researchers in environmental governance and law, as well as interested practitioners and advanced students working in public policy, political science and environmental studies.

Walter F. Baber is a professor in the Graduate Center for Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and an expert in environmental law and politics. His book, Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence (with Robert V. Bartlett, Cambridge University Press, 2009) won the 2011 I.S.A. Book Award for international ethics. Baber was previously a Fulbright Scholar in Italy, Austria and twice in Sweden. James R. May is one of the world's leading authorities on Environmental Human Rights. He has published numerous related texts, including Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Global Environmental Constitutionalism, and Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Indivisibility, Dignity, Legality and Geography (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019). He has received many awards, including from the American Bar Association, Sierra Club, American Canoe Association, Widener University, and Pace University.