Human Rights and the environment

This book brings together, for the first time, international texts all of which stress the importance of the "human right to environment". These instruments have established the existence of procedural rights such as access to information, public participation in decision-making, and access to justice in environmental matters. They also show the emergence of a substantive human right to a quality environment.
All of these are evaluated and the need to open a debate about human duties towards the environment is considered. The book demonstrates, in a comprehensive manner, how important it is to have a high standard of environmental protection as a fundamental human right; it makes an important contribution to the search for suitable instruments for protecting environmental quality, for the benefit of present and future generations.
Human rights specialists, environmentalists and all those wishing to exercise individual or collective environmental rights will find this book an extremely useful reference book.

Index
Prefaces
I. Introduction: human rights and environmental protection
1. The human right to a healthy environment as a substantive right
1.1. Instruments of a universal nature
1.2. Instruments of a regional nature
1.3. The substantive scope of the right to a healthy environment
2. Human rights to environmental procedural rights
2.1. International recognition of procedural rights in environmental matters
2.2. Establishment at an international level of mechanisms allowing the exercice of procedural rights in environmental matters
II. Instruments and other international texts
1. The world framework
1.1. Legally binding instruments
1.2. Non-legally binding instruments and texts adopted by intergovernmental organisations or meetings
1.3. Texts adopted by non-governmental organisations
2. The regional European framework
2.1. Legally binding instruments
2.2. Non-legally binding instruments and texts adopted by intergovernmental organisations or meetings
2.3. Texts adopted by non-governmental organisations
III. Bibliography
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