Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection - Hardcover

Boyle, Alan E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198262558 ISBN 13: 9780198262558

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1996

Synopsis

This collection of essays explores links between the environment and human rights, and responds to the growing debate among activists, lawyers, academics and policy-makers on the legal status of environmental rights in both international and domestic law. The essays contribute to the existing literature and offer a sustained analysis which addresses both the conceptual and practical problems of environmental rights.

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Review

This book by Boyle is the most serious recent publication on this topic [on human rights]...the book under review is the most versatile study on the problem of the link of human rights and environmental protection. The book raises all the relevant issues in a comprehensive and stimulating manner. It gives an overview of different arguments. It strikes a good balance between theory and practice...a must for all internationall lawyers.

...a most useful text book.

About the Author

Alan Boyle is Professor of International Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a joint secretary of the British Branch of the International Law Association and is chair of the branch committee on International Environmental Law and a member of the ILA Committee on water resources law. Michael Anderson in Director of Studies at the British Institute for international and Comparative Law. He was formerly a lecturer in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198262558
• ISBN 13: 9780198262558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 333