Environmental Change and International Law: New Challenges and Dimensions (UNU, 1992, 493 pages): International human rights law and environmental problems: 9. The contribution of international human rights law to environmental protection, with special reference to global environmental change

Environmental Change and International Law: New Challenges and Dimensions (UNU, 1992, 493 pages)

International human rights law and environmental problems

9. The contribution of international human rights law to environmental protection, with special reference to global environmental change

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		Summary
		I. The growth of human rights protection and environmental protection: from internationalization to globalization
		II. The incidence of the temporal dimension in environmental protection and in human rights protection
		III. The fundamental right to life at the basis of the ratio legis of international human rights law and environmental law
		IV. The right to health as the starting-point towards the right to a healthy environment
		V. The right to a healthy environment as an extension of the right to health
		VI. The protection of vulnerable groups at the confluence of international human rights law and international environmental law
		VII. The recognition of the right to a healthy environment: The concern for environmental protection in international human rights instruments
		VIII. Concern for the protection of human rights in the realm of international environmental law
		IX. Concern for the protection of the environment in the realm of international humanitarian law
		X. Protection of the environment and international refugee law
		XI. The question of the implementation (mise en oeuvre) of the right to a healthy environment
		XII. The right to a healthy environment and the absence of restrictions in the expansion of human rights protection and environmental protection
		Notes