Environmental Human Rights in Earth System Governance
Democracy beyond Democracy

We analyze how human rights are made democratically and how they can be made with respect to environmental matters.

Walter F. Baber (Author), Robert V. Bartlett (Author)

9781108732352, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 25 June 2020

75 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 0.5 cm, 0.2 kg

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.

1. A human rights foundation for democratic Earth system governance?
2. Mapping transnational environmental rights
3. Regimes and restatements: charting a post-national path for environmental rights and democracy.

Subject Areas: Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Environmentalist thought & ideology [RNA], Urban economics [KCU], Environmental economics [KCN], Geopolitics [JPSL], International relations [JPS]