The human right to a healthy environment edited by John H Knox and Ramin Pejan

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / John H. Knox and Ramin Pejan -- 2. Catalyst for change: evaluating forty years of experience in implementing the right to a healthy environment / David R. Boyd -- 3. Learning from constitutional environmental rights / Erin Daly and James R. May -- 4. The right to a satisfactory, healthy, and sustainable environment in the African regional human rights system / Lilian Chenwi -- 5. The European Court of Human Rights and international environmental law / Ole W. Pedersen -- 7. Reasoning up: environmental rights as customary internation law / Rebecca M. Bratspies -- 8. In search of a right to a healthy environment in interntional law: jus cogens norms / Louis J. Kotzé -- 9. A human right to a healthy environment?: moral, legal, and empirical considerations / Ceśar Rodriǵuez-Garavito -- 10. Quality control of the right to a healthy environment / Marcos Orellana -- 11. The politics of human rights, the environment, and climate change at the Human Rights Council: toward a universal right to a healthy environment? / Marc Limon -- 12. The malé formulation of the overarching environmental human right / Daniel Magraw and Kristina Wiehöfer -- 13. Human rights in the climate change regime: from Rio to Paris and beyond / Lavanya Rajamani -- 14. The right to a healthy environment and climate change : mismatch or harmony? / Sumudu Atapattu

"Two of the great achievements of international law have been to define the human rights integral to a life of dignity, freedom, and equality, and to develop rules and institutions that protect the global environment. Because these two areas of the law developed separately and at different times, the relationship between them was at first unclear"-- Provided by publisher