Human Rights and the Environment

Sumudu Atapattu is the Director of Research Centers and International Programs at the University of Wisconsin Law School, USA. She teaches seminar classes on "International Environmental Law" and "Climate Change, Human Rights and the Environment." She is affiliated with UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Center for South Asia and is the Executive Director of the Human Rights Program. She serves as the Lead Counsel for Human Rights at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law, Montreal, and is affiliated faculty at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights, Sweden. Her publications include Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law (2006), Human Rights Approaches to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities (2016), International Environmental Law and the Global South (2015), and The Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development (forthcoming). Andrea Schapper is a Lecturer in International Politics and Programme Director of the MSc International Conflict and Cooperation at the University of Stirling, UK. She is the Co-Director of the Centre for Policy, Conflict and Cooperation and member of the Human Security, Conflict and Cooperation interdisciplinary research group at Stirling. She coordinates and teaches modules on "Human Rights in International Politics", "The United Nations in a Globalized World", "International Organizations" and "Political Concepts and Ideas." Previously, when she worked at the University of Darmstadt in Germany, Andrea also taught a seminar on "Climate Change and Human Rights." Her publications include, among others, a monograph titled From the Global to the Local: How International Rights Reach Bangladesh’s Children (2014) and the special journal issue Human Rights and Climate Change: Mapping Institutional Interlinkages (2014). Her journal articles have been published in, among others, International Relations, Human Rights Quarterly, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and the Journal of International Relations and Development.

Part I: Introduction and Evolution 1. Human Rights and Environmental Protection: Framing the Issues 2. Emergence of a Human Right to a Healthy Environment 3. Pros and Cons of a Human Rights-Based Approach to Environmental Protection 4. Regional Developments Part II: Human Rights of special relevance to Environmental Protection 5. Substantive Right 6. Procedural Right 7. Constitutional Developments 8. Selected National Cases Part III: Climate Change and Human Rights 8. From UNFCCC to Paris Agreement: A Human Rights Assessment 9. From UNFCCC to Paris Agreement: A Human Rights Assessment 10. Social Movements and Civil Society 11. Vulnerability and Climate Change 12. Mitigation, Adaptation, and Loss and Damage Part IV: Emerging issues related to environmental rights 13. Extraterritorial Application of Environmental Rights 14. Business, Human Rights and the Environment 15. Intergenerational Rights, Animal rights, and the rights of Nature and Ecosystems 16. Human Rights and Environment: Square Pegs in Round Holes?