Human rights and the environment: a tale of ambivalence and hope

Grear, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2993-1370 2022. Human rights and the environment: a tale of ambivalence and hope. Fisher, Douglas, ed. Research Handbook on Fundamental Concepts of Environmental Law, Second Edition, Vol. 2. Research Handbooks in Environmental Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 123-140. (10.4337/9781839108327.00011)

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Abstract

This chapter argues that international environmental law and international human rights law, despite the existence of tensions between them, show hopeful signs of progress in their relationship. The chapter also argues that despite such signs of progress, both legal domains share problematic subject-object relations tending towards environmental degradation and linked to historical patterns of oppression. Once such subject-object relations are addressed, it might be possible, with sufficient imagination, for such understanding to become the departure point for a reconfigured relationship between the two legal domains – and ultimately, for their transformation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:	9781839108310
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	11 August 2022
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2025 10:31
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/151884

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