Environmental Human Rights: Power, Ethics and Law (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Hancock, Jan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138722421 ISBN 13: 9781138722422

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

This title was first published in 2003. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of human security and environmental protection to the values of allocative efficiency and economic growth. The capacity of social power to construct ethical norms and to determine the efficacy of law is examined to explain how ethical and legal concepts have been selectively applied to accommodate existing patterns of production, consumption and exchange that cause environmental degradation and human rights violations. By looking at how environmental values have been systematically excluded from the human rights discourse, the book claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.

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About the Author

Jan Hancock, Dr, is a Lecturer in International Relations and Global Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138722421
• ISBN 13: 9781138722422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270