The human right to a green future : environmental rights and intergenerational justice / Richard P. Hiskes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiskes, Richard P., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

x, 171 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice. It argues that the rights to clean air, water, and soil should be seen as the environmental human rights of both present and future generations. It presents several new conceptualizations central to the development of theories of both human rights and justice, including emergent human rights, reflexive reciprocity as the foundation of justice, and a communitarian foundation for human rights that both protects the rights of future generations and makes possible an international consensus on human rights - beginning with environmental human rights. In the process of making the case for environmental human rights, the book surveys and contributes to the entire field of human rights theory and environmental justice.

Contents:

Environmental human rights and intergenerational justice

Emergent human rights, identity, harms, and duties

Reflexive reciprocity and intergenerational environmental justice

Cosmopolitan ethics, communal reciprocity, and global environmentalism

Toward a global consensus on environmental human rights

Human rights as inheritance : instituting intergenerational environmental justice

Conclusion : environmental justice and the emergent future of human rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-159) and index.

ISBN:

9780521873956

0521873959

9780521696142

0521696143

OCLC:

232536779