Human Rights and the Environment: Cases, Law, and Policy

by John E. Bonine, Svitlana Kravchenko, John Bonine

Increasingly, environmental rights are being recognized as enforceable human rights, both substantive and procedural. Environmental law can no longer be viewed merely as a matter for policy choices in legislation. This new casebook shows how international and national court cases in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas have begun to interpret treaties, national constitutions, and human rights legislation to protect the environment through the recognition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594604134
• ISBN13: 9781594604133
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 637 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 7.3" x 10.2"