This collection of essays explores linkages between the environment and human rights, and responds to the growing debate among activists, lawyers, academics and policy-makers on the legal status of environmental rights in both international and domestic law.

• 1: Michael Anderson: Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection: An Overview


• International Dimensions


• 2: Professor J. G. Merrills: Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Conceptual Aspects


• 3: Professor Alan Boyle: The Role of International Human Rights Law and the Protection of the Environment


• 4: Catherine Redgwell: Life, The Universe and Everything: A Critique of Anthropocentric Rights


• 5: Dr Robin Churchill: Environmental Rights in Existing Human Rights Treaties


• 6: S. Douglas-Scott: Environmental Rights in the European Union: Participatory Democracy or Democratic Deficit


• 7: James Cameron and Ruth Mackenzie: Access to Environmental Justice and Procedural Rights in International Institutions


• National Case Studies


• 8: François du Bois: Social Justice and the Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Rights and Duties


• 9: Jan Glazewski: Environmental Rights and the New South African Constitution


• 10: Michael Anderson: Individual Rights to Environmental Protection in India


• 11: Dr Andrew Harding: Practical Human Rights, NGOs and the Environment in Malaysia


• 12: Adriana Fabra: Indiginous peoples, Environmental Degradation and Human Rights: A Case Study


• 13: Edesio Fernandez: Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil


• 14: Martin Lau: Islam and Judicial Activism: Public Address Litigation under Environmental Protection in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan