Human Rights and the Environment: Substantive Rights
RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, Malgosia Fitzmaurice, David M. Ong & Panos Merkouris, eds., 2011
21 Pages Posted: 1 Mar 2013
Date Written: 2011
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the relationship between human rights and the environment. The chapter describes multiple sources of human rights and environmental obligations, including international treaties, national law, and the judicial decisions of international courts. Human rights that indirectly call for environmental conservatism include the rights to life, health, privacy, and standard of living. This chapter concludes by noting that governments must balance human rights related to the environment with other concerns such as economic advancement.
Keywords: environmental law, health, human rights, international law
JEL Classification: K32, K33
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