A Global Environmental Right by Turner, Stephen;

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies;

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Product details:

Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 15 August 2014

ISBN 9780415821834
Binding Paperback
No. of pages208 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Weight 317 g
Language English

Short description:

This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right which would create legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance.

Long description:

The development of an international substantive environmental right has long been a contested issue. Concurrently, environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way and to a limited extent through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right which would create legal duties for all decision-makers relating to the environment and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance.

The book analyses not only traditional international environmental law and human rights law but also the development of corporate law, the development of the GATT and the WTO. It uses this basis to build an understanding of the wider international legal architecture and why that architecture often leads to poor outcomes for the environment. The book summarizes the state of scientific knowledge, as it is this, which drives the justification for legal reform. It also analyses existing systems that have developed within the practice of decision-making processes to demonstrate the role that they can play within new systems of environmental governance.

Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the architecture would solve fundamental problems and argues for the development of a new environmental right that creates clear legal responsibilities for decision-makers, illustrating how governments and institutions would need to adjust to make the changes operative and successful. This problem solving approach extends to the provision of a draft treaty annexed to the book.

This innovative and interdisciplinary book is of great interest to students and researchers in international environmental law, environmental politics, environmental economics, and environmental management, as well as those studying more specifically the WTO, international trade law, human rights law, constitutional law and company law.

"The author’s approach is innovative and thought-provoking. The book has the potential to offer insights into a new way of thinking about the global environmental crisis." – thinktosustain.com

1. Introduction 2. The state of degradation of the planet's environment, the impact upon human rights and the current status of the development of human rights 3. The Global Legal Architecture - The underlying reasons for the failure of international environmental law to provide satisfactory international environmental governance 4. The Structure and modus operandai of the proposed global environmental right 5. The application of a global environmental right to climate change 6. Conclusion