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