Environmental Human Rights Power, Ethics and Law Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Hancock Jan
This title was first published in 2003. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of human security and environmental protection to the values of allocative efficiency and economic growth. The capacity of social power to construct ethical norms and to determine the efficacy of law is examined to explain how ethical and legal concepts have been selectively applied to accommodate existing patterns of production, consumption and exchange that cause environmental degradation and human rights violations. By looking at how environmental values have been systematically excluded from the human rights discourse, the book claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.
1. Rationality, Epistemology and Environmental Human Rights. 2. Structural Power and Environmental Human Rights. 3. Social Demands for Environmental Human Rights. 4. The Formal Response to Environmental Human Rights Claims. 5. The Human Right to an Environment Free from Toxic Pollution. 6. The Human Right to Natural Resources.
Date de parution : 05-2021
15.2x21.9 cm
Date de parution : 09-2019
15.2x21.9 cm
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Mots-clés :
Environmental Human Rights; Constitutional Environmental Rights; rights; Military Junta; Power; NGO Response; Law; NGO Participation; Human; Corporate Europe Observatory; Ethics; South West Organizing Project; Environmental; Feeding Crops; environmental protection; World Rainforest Movement; global capitalism; Counter Hegemonic Bloc; human rights law; Human Rights; human rights politics; Toxic Pollution; human rights violations; ICCPR Article; ICESCR Article; Ecological Rationality; Brazilian Government; Anti-systemic Forces; Harm Principle; Contemporary Societies; Pm 10s; Formal Political Channels; Unpolluted Environment; Environmental Rights; Irian Jaya; Corporate Watch