Environmental Rights in Europe and Beyond
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781509911110
Subjects: Environmental law, europe; Civil rights, europe; Environmental protection
Description: The growing awareness of an impending environmental crisis coupled with a series of national and regional environmental disasters led, in the 1960s and 1970s, to the birth of the global environmental movement and the widespread recognition of the need to protect the environment for both current and future generations. Against this backdrop the concept of 'environmental rights' surfaced as a means by which claims relating to the environment could be formulated in legal terms and thereby safeguarded. In the decades that followed, this concept has come to encompass many different variations of legal rights, which this book seeks to investigate and assess