Handbook on Human Rights to a Healthy Environment by Ashukem, Jean-Claude N.;

Long description:

This unique handbook provides authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the (constitutional) human rights to a healthy environment in Cameroon and Africa. It explores Cameroon and African regulatory and policy interventions regarding environmental protection, systematically addressing a broad range of sub-topics in a rich discussion of the various dimensions of environmental protection.

This handbook is timely, relevant, and adds to the limited existing literature on constitutional environmental governance in Cameroon and Africa, offering fresh and extensive insights into environmental protection in the region and sharing lessons that can be applied to other African countries.

This handbook is undoubtedly a valuable resource for scholars of human rights, environmental protection and related fields, and a practical guide for a range of actors in environmental governance, such as state actors and non-governmental organizations in Cameroon and Africa in general.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Environmental Rights Without Borders: The Continuing Need for Innovations.- Introduction: Mapping the Normative Conceptual Contour of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment – Past, Present, and Future.- Part 2: Environmentalism and Internationalism.- UN Resolution on the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment: Implications for Africa and Cameroon.- Part 3: Receptive Regionalism?.- Article 66 of the African Charter and the Issue of Supplementary Standards: A Protocol to Supplement Article 24 on the Human Rights to a Clean, Healthy, and Satisfactory Environment.- The Right to a Healthy Environment in Natural Resource Impacted Communities: An Assessment of the Scorecard of the African Human Rights Charter in Nigeria.- Right of the Indigenous Peoples to a Healthy and Satisfactory Human Environment and the Highest Attainable Level of Health: Land Degradation and Deforestation in Africa.- The Protection of Humans in the Context of Population Displacement in Africa: An Analysis of United Nations and African Human Rights Systems.- Looking Back to Leap Forward: A Critical Review of Twenty-Two Years (2003-2025) of Maputo Convention as a Framework for Environmental Governance in Africa.- Part 4: Legal Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon.- The Environmental Rights of Minorities in Peril: Are Indigenous Peoples Entitled to the Constitutional Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon?.- The (Potential) Role of Competition Law and Policy in Promoting the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: Lessons from South Africa.- In Search of the Protection of Children’s (Environmental) Rights within the Framework of the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon.- Green Growth and the Constitutional Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon’s Economic Policy.- Part 5: State Actors and Environmental Protection in Cameroon.- The Constitutionalisation of the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Safe Environment and the Legal Mechanism for its Adjudication in Cameroon: Lessons from Kenya, and South Africa.- The Constitutional and Statutory Division of Environmental Authority and Responsibility in Cameroon: Highlighting the Role of Decentralized Territorial Council.- Part 6: Substantive Environmental Rights Protection in Cameroon.- The Right to a Healthy Environment and Wetland Ecosystems Degradation in Cameroon: Insight into Legal Solutions to Curb this Phenomenon.- The Rights to Health and the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment under Cameroonian Law: A Legal Appraisal.- Water Resource Management and the Protection of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment under Cameroonian Law.- Towards a Transformative Approach to Environmental Constitutionalism in Cameroon?.- Towards addressing climate change through the human rights to a healthy environment in Cameroon.- Plastic Pollution and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: A Legal Appraisal.- Interrogating the Legal Protection of Persons Affected by Climate Change Displacement within the Context of the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon.- In Forging the Protection of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment: Exploring the Contentious Politics of the Right to Development and Environmental Protection from the Perspective of Land-Grabbing in Cameroon.- Towards the Protection of the Right to a Healthy Environment: Local Knowledge and Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts on Wildlife and Indigenous Livelihoods on Mount Cameroon.- Towards Enhancing the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon through Wildlife and the Forest Conservation: Prospects and Constraints.- Part 7: Procedural Environmental Rights in Cameroon.- The Judiciary and Environmental Protection: A Primer to Strengthening the Protection of the Constitutional Rights to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon?.- Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon.- The Extractive Industry and the Human Right to a Healthy Environment in Cameroon: The Role of EIA Regimes.- Part 8: Intersection of the Environment with Other Challenges in Africa.- Interrogating the Continuous Protection of the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment During Armed Conflicts – Perspectives from the North-West and South-West Regions of Cameroon.- Towards the Right to a Safe and Healthy Environment in the SADC Region – Evolution, Adaptation, and Progress.- The Potential of New Technologies in Environmental Conservation: A Look at South Africa and Cameroon.- A Multijurisdictional Exploration of the Politics of Environmental Protection from a Right to Development Dimension in Africa.- Promoting the Right to a Healthy Environment through the Lens of Environmental Justice: Comparative Perspectives from Burkina Faso, Canada, and Nigeria.- Limits of Transnational Litigation Over Environmental Rights Violations in Nigeria: Perspectives from Royal Dutch Shell and Related Cases.- The Right of Nature and Environmental Conservation in Uganda.- Enforcement of Littering Law and its Implications for the Right to a Clean and Healthy Environment in Uganda.- Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment for Climate Action in Zimbabwe through a Human Rights-Based Approach.- The Extractive Industry Regulation and the Protection of the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Mozambique.- Multinational Extractive Enterprises and the Human Rights to a Healthy Environment in Uganda: The Role of Environmental Procedural Rights.