A Research Agenda for Human Rights and the Environment

Edited by Dina Lupin, Lecturer in Law, University of Southampton Law School, UK, and Director, Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Research Agenda for Human
Rights and the Environment 1
Dina Lupin

PART I REPOSITIONING MARGINALISED EPISTEMIC
AND EXPERIENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
2 Towards a disability-inclusive environment and
human health research agenda 13
Sarah L. Bell
3 Indigenous Peoples’ rights and the politics of
climate change 31
Anna F. Laing
4 A critical peasants’ rights perspective for human
rights and the environment: Leveraging the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Peasants 55
Amanda Lyons and Ana María Suárez Franco

PART II REINVENTING HUMAN RIGHTS TOOLS AND
APPROACHES
5 Racial segregation, water disconnection and
human rights litigation: An examination of the use
of law to challenge structural racism in Detroit
and Johannesburg 81
Jackie Dugard
6 The right to consultation is a right to be heard 103
Dina Lupin and Leo Townsend
7 Rethinking ‘vulnerability’: Widening the scope to
conceptualize ‘vulnerability’ for the human right
to water 123
Daphina Misiedjan

PART III RELOCATING RIGHTS IN OVERLOOKED SPACES
8 Climate change and human rights in the overseas
colonized territories of the state 143
Miriam Cullen and Céline Brassart Olsen
9 Human rights law as a gap-filler: The invisibility of
climate vulnerability in international climate change law 159
Linnéa Nordlander

PART IV RETHINKING HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE
ENVIRONMENT
10 Indigenous knowledge and new materialism 181
Tina Sikka, Elizabeth Mills and Nisha Sikka
11 Decoloni-zation/ality of ‘protected areas’:
A South African perspective 209
Clive Vinti
12 The human right to a healthy environment and
the rights of racialized groups: Applying critical
race theory as a framework for (re)constructing
environmental rights through foundational
transformation 231
Natalia Urzola Gutiérrez

Index 253