Environmental human rights : power, ethics, and law
This text redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights. It claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.
ix, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
9780754619864, 0754619869
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List of Tables vi
Acknowledgements vii
List ofAbbreviations viii
Introduction 1
1 Rationality, Epistemology and Environmental Human Rights 15
2 Structural Power and Environmental Human Rights 35
3 Social Demands for Environmental Human Rights 55
4 The Formal Response to Environmental Human Rights Claims 79
5 The Human Right to an Environment Free from Toxic Pollution 107
6 The Human Right to Natural Resources 137
Conclusion 157
Bibliography 167
Index 205
Includes "List of abbreviations"--Page viii-ix