Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment

Edited by Anna Grear, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Louis J. Kotzé, Research Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law, University of Lincoln, UK

Contents:

1. An Invitation to Epistemic Travellers – Towards Future Worlds in Waiting: Human Rights and the Environment in the Twenty-first Century
Anna Grear and Louis J. Kotzé

PART I EPISTEMOLOGIES
2. Epistemologies of Mastery
Sam Adelman

3. Epistemologies of Doubt
Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

4. Ecological Subjectivities, Responsibilities, and Agency
Lorraine Code

PRAT II CORE VALUES AND CLOSURES
5. Environmental Human Rights: A Constructive Critique
Peter D. Burdon

6. The Closures of Legal Subjectivity: Why Examining ‘Law’s Person’ is Critical to an Understanding of Injustice in an Age of Climate Crisis
Anna Grear

7. Property Rights, Environmental Justice and Worldly Order – Lessons from Natural Law
Sean Coyle

8. Re-imagining the Role of the Sovereign State and Individual Rights in Mitigating the Effects of the Deterioration of the Environment
Francois Venter

PART III CONSTITUTIONALISMS AND INTERNATIONALISMS
9. Human Rights and the Environment through an Environmental Constitutionalism Lens
Louis J. Kotzé

10. Constitutions, Human Rights and the Environment: National Approaches
David R. Boyd

11. Sustainability, Environmental Citizenship Rights and the Ongoing Challenges of Reshaping Supranational Environmental Governance
Karen Morrow

12. The United Nations, Human Rights and the Environment
Lynda Collins

PART IV REGIONALISMS
Regionalisms 1: Troubled Conversations?

13. In One Ear and Out the Other: Human Rights Consultations and Environmental Discourses for Human Rights in Australasia
Brad Jessup and Annette Jones

14. Reflecting on Cosmology and Environmental Protection: Maori Cultural Rights in Aotearoa New Zealand
Catherine J. Iorns Magallanes

15. Environmental Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Sophie Thériault

Regionalisms 2: Participations?
16. Aligning International Environmental Governance with the ‘Aarhus Principles’ and Participatory Human Rights
Ulrich Beyerlin

17. The Interaction Between Human Rights and the Environment in the European ‘Aarhus Space’
Ellen Hey

Regionalisms 3: Receptivities?
18. International Courts and Environmental Human Rights: Re-Imagining Adjudicative Paradigms
Evadne Grant

19. Human Rights and the Environment in the African Union Context
Werner Scholtz

PART V THE FUTURE WE WANT?
20. Protecting the Human Rights of Climate Displaced Persons: The Promise and Limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Rosemary Lyster

21. Human Rights, Environmental Justice, and the North-South Divide
Carmen G. Gonzalez

22. Selectivity in Law-Making: Regulating Extraterritorial Environmental Harm and Human Rights Violations by Transnational Extractive Corporations Penelope Simons

23. Ecosystem Services, Fear and the Subjects of Environmental Human Rights
Afshin Akhtar Khavari

24. Environmental and Human Rights in Ethical Context
Klaus Bosselmann

Index