Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance: Democracy beyond Democracy - Softcover

Book 2 of 5: Elements in Earth System Governance

Baber, Walter F.

 
9781108732352: Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance: Democracy beyond Democracy
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1108732356 ISBN 13: 9781108732352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance (any environmental-ecological-sustainable democracy). For any democracy to remain democratic, some aspects must be beyond democracy and must not be allowed to be subjected to any ordinary democratic collective choice processes shy of consensus. Real, established rights constitute a necessary boundary of legitimate everyday democratic practice. We analyze how human rights are made democratically and, in particular, how they can be made with respect to matters environmental, especially matters that have import beyond the confines of the modern nation state.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108732356
ISBN 13 
9781108732352
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
82