The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, Human Rights, and the Environment

by David R. Boyd

Book Overview

The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around a key question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law, in the constitutions of democratic states? In The Environmental Rights Revolution , David Boyd, one of Canada's leading environmental lawyers, answers this question by moving beyond theoretical debate to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774821604
• ISBN13: 9780774821605
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: UBC Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.