Contents
| Introduction | | | 2.1 The rationale for a constitutional approach to environmental protection | 5 |
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| | 2.2 The rationale for taking environmental protection to be a human rights issue | 9 |
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| | 2.3 Section conclusion | 13 |
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| | 3 Overview of the arguments of the book | 14 |
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| | 1. The Case for a Human Right to an Adequate Environment | 25 |
| | 1.1 The case for pursuing environmental ends by means of human rights | 27 |
| | 1.1.1 The scope of an environmental human right | 27 |
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| | 1.1.2 Addressing doubts from an environmental perspective | 31 |
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| | 1.2 A genuine human right? | 36 |
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| | 1.3 A universal moral right to an adequate environment | 47 |
| | 1.3.1 Why the right to an adequate environment meets the criteria of a genuine human right | 47 |
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| | 1.3.2 Defending the case means critically assessing the relation of rights to duties | 50 |
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| | 1.4 International recognition of a human right to an adequate environment: the precedents | 54 |
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| | 2. Constitutionalizing the Right to an Adequate Environment: Challenges of Principle | 63 |
| | 2.1 Why the right to an adequate environment ought to be constitutionalized | 65 |
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Publication information:
Book title: Constitutional Environmental Rights.
Contributors: Tim Hayward - Author.
Publisher: Oxford University Press.
Place of publication: Oxford.
Publication year: 2005.
Page number: vii.
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