When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide: The Politics of Conflict Management by Regional Courts

ISBN-13: 9781316515808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

The Netherlands) Marie-Catherine (Universiteit van Tilburg

Opis

The book illuminates the nature, extent, and political implications of normative conflicts between environmental protection laws and human rights.

Recenzje

'This scholarly, well-argued, and thought-provoking book rightly problematises uncritical assertions of 'synergy' between human rights and 'the environment' and exposes tacit imaginaries facilitating the on-going absorption of environmental concerns into human rights law. Petersmann draws timely and necessary attention to normative conflicts that are all too often over-looked. Theoretically astute and doctrinally informed, this book is simultaneously critical, affirmative and future-facing. It is a powerful contribution to the field.' Anna Grear, Cardiff University

Spis treści

Part I. Constructing Synergies – Framing the Environment – Human Rights Interface: 1. Narratives of environmental and human rights protection – from a 'Pristine Wilderness' to a 'Human Environment'; 2. Horizons of synergy – adjudicating environmental and human rights protection; 3. Constructing and contesting anthropocentric synergies; 4. Countering the dominant frame – an account of trade-offs and tensions; Part II. Conflict Mediation through Universalisation: 5. The general interest as universalisation strategy; 6. Expert knowledge as universalisation strategy.