Linking Human Rights and the Environment

by Romina Picolotti

Book Overview

All over the world, people are experiencing the effects of ecosystem decline, from water shortages to fish kills to landslides on deforested slopes. The victims of environmental degradation tend to belong to more vulnerable sectors of society-racial and ethnic minorities and the poor-who regularly carry a disproportionate burden of such abuse. Increasingly, many basic human rights are being placed at risk, as the right to health affected by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529345
• ISBN13: 9780816529346
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"