Human rights and environmental sustainability / Kerri Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, Kerri.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Environmental aspects.

Human rights.

Sustainability--Social aspects.

Sustainability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, U.K. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability challenges the assumed harmony between human rights norms and the demands of environmental sustainability, by addressing conceptual, normative, and political questions surrounding the interaction between the two. What is gained and lost by environmental theorists and activists adopting the language and institutions of human rights? Is there coherence or tension between the values of human rights and environmental sustainability? Is the idea of environmental human rights plausible, and defensible? Whereas previous studies have considered the interfa

Contents:

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Globalization, human rights and the environment; 2. Human rights: moral authority and philosophical doubts; 3. The contemporary human rights regime: some criticisms and an alternative; 4. Environmental sustainability and environmental values; 5. The institutions of sustainability: citizenship, democracy and justice; 6. Rights or sustainability; rights and sustainability?; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-89010-7

9786612890109

1-84980-807-4