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Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography, edited by James R. May & Erin Daly Edward Elgar, 2019, 616 pp, £215 hb, £172 ebk ISBN 9781788111454 hb, 9781788111461 ebk
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2021
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3 It is argued that there are five ways to frame human rights in the context of environmental protection: (i) the use of existing human rights to advance environmental claims; (ii) the expansion of existing human rights to better address environmental harm, namely, the ‘greening’ of existing human rights law; (iii) the recognition of an independent right to a healthy environment; (iv) advocacy for new rights for the environment itself, commonly referred to as rights of nature; and (v) the duties and responsibilities to uphold environmental human rights; see details in Rajan, S.R., Davies, K. & Magallanes, C. Iorns, ‘Identifying Legal Claims to Human Rights and the Environment’, in May, J.R. & Daly, E. (eds), Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity and Geography (Edward Elgar, 2018), pp. 183–97Google Scholar.
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