Constitutional Environmental Rights
Tim Hayward
Abstract
This book shows why a fundamental right to an adequate environment ought to be provided in the constitution of any modern democratic state. Explains why the right to an environment adequate for one’s health and well-being is a genuine human right and why it ought to be constitutionalised. Elaborates this case and defends it in closely argued responses to critical challenges. Shows why there is no insurmountable obstacle to the effective implementation of this constitutional right, and why constitutionalising this right is not democratically illegitimate. With particular reference to European U ... More
Keywords: constitution, constitutional rights, democracy, environment, environmental justice, environmental rights, human rights, political theory, right to an adequate environment, rights
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199278688 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2005 | DOI:10.1093/0199278687.001.0001 |
