Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: International and Domestic Legal Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781844074853 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 368 str.

Laura Westra

Opis

Melting ice, dwindling forests, poisoned water and more - environmental damage that can have fatal consequences for indigenous communities - yet they are afforded virtually no protection in law.

Spis treści

Foreword by Bradford W. Morse * Part I: Basic Issues, Principles and Historical Background * The Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Eco-footprint Crime and the Biological/Ecological Integrity Model to Achieve Environmental Justice * Cultural Integrity and Ecological Integrity: The Interface and International Law * Cosmopolitanism and Natural Law for the Recovery of Individual and Community Rights * Part II: Selected Examples From Domestic and International Case Law * Indigenous Peoples and Minorities in International Jurisprudence and the Responsibility of the World Bank * The United States and Indigenous Peoples: Some Recent ATCA Jurisprudence * First Nations of Canada and the Legal and Illegal Attacks on their Existence * Part III: Justifying Genocide: Principles and Reality * Genocide and Eco-crime: The Interface * Aboriginal Rights in Domestic and International Law, and the Special Case of Arctic Peoples * Part IV: Some Modest Proposals for Global Governance * Indigenous Human Rights and the Obligations of State and Non-State Actors * Governance for Global Integrity: Present Instruments, Trends and Future Goals * Index

O autorze

Laura Westra is Professor Emerita (Philosophy), University of Windsor, PhD in Law, Osgoode Hall Law School and Adjunct Professor of Social Science, York University, Canada. She is the author of 18 books including Environmental Justice and the Rights of Unborn and Future Generations, published by Earthscan in 2006.