Environmental Rights: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415757232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str.

Chris Miller

Opis

This volume offers perspectives on contemporary debates over rights and environmental issues, criticizing the traditional ecocentric formulation and the view that it is meaningful to speak of environmental rights as a sub-set of human rights.

Recenzje

"Christopher Miller's book is a notable milestone in this ongoing debate and, as mentioned above, also a valuable treatise on current developments in environmental law" Journal of Environmental Law Vol 11, No 1

Spis treści

1. The concept of an 'environmental right' 2. Has the European union conferred environmental rights upon its citizens? 3. Town and Country Planning 4. Do we have a right to breathe clean air? 5. A right to clean water? 6. Radiological Protection 7. The erosion of property rights 8. Landscapes, species and habitats 9. Are ecocentric rights so very different?

O autorze

Christopher Miller is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management at the University of Salford.