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"The development of an international substantive environmental right on a global level has long been a contested issue. To a limited extent environmental rights have developed in a fragmented way through different legal regimes. This book examines the potential for the development of a global environmental right that would create legal duties for all types of decision-makers and provide the bedrock for a new system of international environmental governance.
Taking a problem solving approach, the book seeks to demonstrate how straightforward and logical changes to the existing global legal architecture would address some of the fundamental root causes of environmental degradation. It puts forward a draft global environmental right that would integrate duties for both state and non-state actors within reformed systems of environmental governance and a rational framework for business and industry to adhere to in order that those systems could be made operational. It also examines the failures of the existing international climate change regime and explains how the draft global environmental right could remedy existing deficits.
This innovative and interdisciplinary book will be of great interest to policy-makers, students and researchers in international environmental law, climate change, environmental politics and global environmental governance as well as those studying the WTO, international trade law, human rights law, constitutional law and corporate law."--Pub. desc.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. state of the planet's environment and its relationship with human rights
• 2.2.1. Natural capital
• 2.2.2. Water Use
• 2.2.3. Land use, land-use conversion and degradation
• 2.2.4. Forests
• 2.2.5. Climate change
• 2.2.6. Fisheries
• 2.2.7. Coral reefs and mangroves
• 2.2.8. Biodiversity
• 2.2.9. Poverty
• 2.2.10. Population
• 2.3. response of human rights to environmental degradation
• 2.3.1. right to life
• 2.3.2. right to health
• 2.3.3. right to water
• 2.3.4. right to food
• 2.3.5. right to housing or shelter
• 2.3.6. right to property
• 2.4. development of environmental rights internationally

• 2.4.1. Procedural environmental rights
• 2.4.2. Substantive environmental rights
• 2.4.3. Developments within the United Nations
• 2.5. Conclusion
• 3.1. Introduction
• 3.2. Existing approaches to global environmental governance
• 3.2.1. Westphalian system
• 3.2.2. 'Soft law' and 'hard law'
• 3.2.3. Compliance
• 3.2.4. World Environment Organization?
• 3.2.5. expanded approach to international environmental law
• 3.3. development of a global legal architecture
• 3.3.1. Corporations
• 3.3.2. Trade
• 3.3.3. States
• 3.4. Conclusions
• 3.4.1. global legal architecture
• 3.4.2. relationship between the global legal architecture and global environmental governance
• 3.4.3. To what extent can human rights respond to this global legal architecture?
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Background
• 4.3. Draft Global Environmental Right with commentary
• Preamble
• 4.3.1. Article 1 Statement of Environmental Duties
• 4.3.2. Article 2 Integration of Duties
• 4.3.3. Article 3 Definitions
• 4.3.4. Article 4 National Constitutions and Governmental Duties Towards the Environment
• 4.3.5. Article 5 Annual State Environmental Accounting
• 4.3.6. Article 6 Duties of Individuals Towards the Environment
• 4.3.7. Article 7 Corporate Environmental Duty
• 4.3.8. Article 8 Annual Corporate Environmental Accounting
• 4.3.9. Article 9 Consumption, Use and Disposal of Goods and Products
• 4.3.10. Article 10 Registered Suppliers of Direct Environmental Compensatory Offsets (DECOs)
• 4.3.11. Article 11 Registered Suppliers of Environmental Insurance
• 4.3.12. Article 12 International Corporation Registration Body
• 4.3.13. Article 13 World Environment Organization
• 4.3.14. Article 14 World Trade Law
• 4.3.15. Article 15 Environmental Assessments
• 4.3.16. Article 16 System of International Environmental Assessors
• 4.3.17. Article 17 Banks and Financial Institutions
• 4.3.18. Article 18 Transitional Arrangements
• 4.3.19. Article 19 Compliance
• 4.3.20. Article 20 Separation of Corporations and the State
• 4.3.21. Article 21 Secretariat
• 4.4. Conclusion
• 5.1. Introduction
• 5.2. Deficiencies of the existing regime and the potential remedies through the adoption of the draft GER
• 5.2.1. UNFCCC treaty
• 5.2.2. Kyoto Protocol
• 5.2.3. need for stabilization of GHGs in the atmosphere
• 5.2.4. requirement for a global and comprehensive system that addresses the root causes of climate change
• 5.2.5. need for finance
• 5.2.6. need to achieve equity
• 5.3. Conclusion.

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Author/Creator:

Turner, Stephen J. (Stephen James) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A global environmental right [by Turner, S.J.]

Related Series:

Routledge explorations in environmental studies

Subjects:

Environmental law, International

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-180) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

K3585 .T868 2014

ISBNs:

9781135090241 (electronic bk.)
1135090246 (electronic bk.)
9780415811590 [Invalid]
0415811597 [Invalid]
0203070151 [Invalid]
9780203070154 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

858282007

Other Control Numbers:

639640 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11138608