Handbook on Human Rights to a Healthy Environment : International, Regional, and Comparative Pathways for Policy Intervention in Cameroon / edited by Jean-Claude N. Ashukem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashukem, Jean-Claude N.

Contributor:

Ashukem

Series:

Law and Criminology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Environmental law, International.

Conflict of laws.

International law.

Comparative law.

Africa--Politics and government.

Africa.

Human Rights.

International Environmental Law.

Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

African Politics.

Local Subjects:

Human Rights.

International Environmental Law.

Private International Law, International and Foreign Law, Comparative Law.

African Politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1018 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This unique handbook provides authoritative, comprehensive, and compelling analysis of the constitutional human right to a healthy environment in Cameroon and Africa. It explores Cameroon and African regulatory and policy interventions regarding environmental protection, systematically addressing a broad range of sub-topics in a rich discussion of the various dimensions of environmental protection. This handbook is timely, relevant, and adds to the limited existing literature on constitutional environmental governance in Cameroon and Africa, offering fresh and extensive insights into environmental protection in the region and sharing lessons that can be applied to other African countries. This handbook is undoubtedly a valuable resource for scholars of human rights, environmental protection and related fields, and a practical guide for a range of actors in environmental governance, such as state actors and non-governmental organizations in Cameroon and Africa in general.

Contents:

Part 1: Environmental Rights Without Borders: The Continuing Need for Innovations

Introduction: Mapping the Normative Conceptual Contour of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment – Past, Present, and Future

Part 2: Environmentalism and Internationalism

UN Resolution on the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment: Implications for Africa and Cameroon

Part 3: Receptive Regionalism?

Article 66 of the African Charter and the Issue of Supplementary Standards: A Protocol to Supplement Article 24 on the Human Rights to a Clean, Healthy, and Satisfactory Environment

The Right to a Healthy Environment in Natural Resource Impacted Communities: An Assessment of the Scorecard of the African Human Rights Charter in Nigeria

Right of the Indigenous Peoples to a Healthy and Satisfactory Human Environment and the Highest Attainable Level of Health: Land Degradation and Deforestation in Africa

The Protection of Humans in the Context of Population Displacement in Africa: An Analysis of United Nations and African Human Rights Systems

Looking Back to Leap Forward: A Critical Review of Twenty-Two Years (2003-2025) of Maputo Convention as a Framework for Environmental Governance in Africa

Part 4: Legal Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon

The Environmental Rights of Minorities in Peril: Are Indigenous Peoples Entitled to the Constitutional Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon?

The (Potential) Role of Competition Law and Policy in Promoting the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: Lessons from South Africa

In Search of the Protection of Children’s (Environmental) Rights within the Framework of the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon

Green Growth and the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon’s Economic Policy

Part 5: State Actors and Environmental Protection in Cameroon

The Constitutionalisation of the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Safe Environment and the Legal Mechanism for its Adjudication in Cameroon: Lessons from Kenya, and South Africa

The Constitutional and Statutory Division of Environmental Authority and Responsibility in Cameroon: Highlighting the Role of Decentralized Territorial Council

Part 6: Substantive Environmental Rights Protection in Cameroon

The Right to a Healthy Environment and Wetland Ecosystems Degradation in Cameroon: Insight into Legal Solutions to Curb this Phenomenon

The Rights to Health and the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment under Cameroonian Law: A Legal Appraisal

Water Resource Management and the Protection of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment under Cameroonian Law

Towards a Transformative Approach to Environmental Constitutionalism in Cameroon?

Towards addressing climate change through the human rights to a healthy environment in Cameroon

Plastic Pollution and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: A Legal Appraisal

Interrogating the Legal Protection of Persons Affected by Climate Change Displacement within the Context of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon

In Forging the Protection of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Exploring the Contentious Politics of the Right to Development and Environmental Protection from the Perspective of Land-Grabbing in Cameroon

Towards the Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment: Local Knowledge and Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife and Indigenous Livelihoods on Mount Cameroon

Towards Enhancing the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon through Wildlife and the Forest Conservation: Prospects and Constraints

Part 7: Procedural Environmental Rights in Cameroon

The Judiciary and Environmental Protection: A Primer to Strengthening the Protection of the Constitutional Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon?

Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon

The Extractive Industry and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: The Role of EIA Regimes

Part 8: Intersection of the Environment with Other Challenges in Africa

Interrogating the Continuous Protection of the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment During Armed Conflicts – Perspectives from the North-West and South-West Regions of Cameroon

Towards the Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment in the SADC Region – Evolution, Adaptation, and Progress

The Potential of New Technologies in Environmental Conservation: A Look at South Africa and Cameroon

A Multijurisdictional Exploration of the Politics of Environmental Protection from a Right to Development Dimension in Africa

Promoting the Right to a Healthy Environment through the Lens of Environmental Justice: Comparative Perspectives from Burkina Faso, Canada, and Nigeria

Limits of Transnational Litigation Over Environmental Rights Violations in Nigeria: Perspectives from Royal Dutch Shell and Related Cases

The Right of Nature and Environmental Conservation in Uganda

Enforcement of Littering Law and its Implications for the Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment in Uganda

Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment for Climate Action in Zimbabwe through a Human Rights-Based Approach

The Extractive Industry Regulation and the Protection of the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Mozambique

Multinational Extractive Enterprises and the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Uganda: The Role of Environmental Procedural Rights.

ISBN:

3-032-01532-4

9783032015327