This book explores how environmental human rights must respond to the key questions of politics, such as the state and sovereignty, equality, recognition and representation, and examines how the competing understandings about these rights are also related to political ideologies.
Markku Oksanen is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Eastern Finland.
Ashley Dodsworth is a Senior Teaching Associate in Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.
Selina O'Doherty is a Lecturer in International Development at the Department of Political and Cultural Studies at Swansea University, UK.
Introduction: Environmental Human Rights and Political Theory
Chapter One: The Rights of Humans as Ecologically Embedded Beings
Chapter Two: The Problem of Rights to 'Natural' Resources in the Anthropocene Era
Chapter Three: Reconciliation of Nature and Society: How Far Can Rights Take Us?
Chapter Four: The Foundation of Rights to Nature
Chapter Five: Human Rights and Rights to Natural Resources
Chapter Six: Making Sense of the Human Right to Landscape
Chapter Seven: What So Good About Environmental Human Rights?: Constitutional Versus International Environmental Rights
Chapter Eight: 'Environmental Human Rights - Concepts of Responsibility
Chapter Nine: Future People's Rights
Chapter Ten: Justifying the Imposition of Risks of Rights Violations on Future People on Contractualist Grounds