Human health and ecological integrity
Subtitle: ethics, law and human rights
By: edited by Laura Westra, Colin L. Soskolne and Donald Spady
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415504270; 9780203128404
Subjects: Public health laws; International Public health laws; Government policy; Human ecology; International Environmental law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Life, health and the environment : the denied connection / Laura Westra; title: Keeping nature alive : ethical principles on the environment and human health in state statutes / Katy Kintzele; title: Human rights, environmental duties : an ecological interpretation of international law / Megan Mitchell; title: The common heritage principle and public health : honouring our legacy / Prue Taylor; title: Aldo Leopold's concept of land health : implications for sound public health policy / Paul Carrick; title: Valuation ecosystem services as an instrument for implementation of the European landscape convention / Joseph Sejak, Pavel Cudlin and Jan Pokorný; title: Less energy, better health? / Jack Manno; title: Canada's "rogue nation" position on asbestos / Colin L. Soskolne and Kathleen Ruff; title: Public health and primary prevention : past and present opportunities and barriers / Vladimir Bencko and John Quinn; title: Public health care in the time of transition : the need to revert to basics / Donald Spady; title: Migrants' access to healthcare in the Czech Republic : ethical challenges / Helena Hnilicová and Karolína Dobiášová; title: Gender, violation of human rights and mental health / Yuliya Lyamzina; title: The efficiency of cost-controlpolicies in health care : does economic efficiency imply sustainability?; title: / tomas zeleny; title: Ethical obligations of individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions / Don Brown; title: Domains of climate ethics / Konrad Ott and Cristian Baatz; title: Climate change and law : a constitutional perspective / Antonio D'Aloia; title: International groundwater law / Joe Dellapenna; title: Environmental protection and the human right to water: complimentarity and tension; title: The challenges of creating new human rights / Kathleen Mahoney; title: The protection of cultural landscapes and indigenous heritage in international investment law / Valentina Vadi; title: "Some for all, forever" : a southern perspective on poverty, access to water, environmental health and the north-south divide / Louis J. Kotzé; title: Are cows "climate killers?" / Franz-Theo Gottwald; title: Food security, public health, financial regimes and international law / John Quinn and Vladimir Bencko; title: Re-examining health protection in international environmental regulation / William Onzivu; title: The human impact on the ecosystem : past, present and future / Brunetto Chiarelli; title: Introducing the rule of ecological law / Geoffrey Garver.