Oxford LibGuides: Environmental Law: Rights, duties, justice

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Environmental justice

Environmental policy

Environmental responsibility

Economic development - environmental aspects

Sustainable development

Environmental Protection and Human Rights by Donald K. Anton; Dinah L. Shelton
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780521766388
Publication Date: 2011
Print copy available at Internat 570 A634a if preferred
Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change by Megan Blomfield
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 0198791739
Publication Date: 2019
Print copy can be requested from Closed Stacks if preferred.

Aarhus Convention
Earth Law Network: Earth Jurisprudence
Gaia Foundation website Explanation of and articles relating to "Earth Jurisprudence recognises that the Earth is embedded in a lawful and ordered Universe. Our Earth uniquely sustains life as we know it through a complex system of living processes and laws, as a self-regulating planetary organism. All species, including humans, are inextricably subject to these laws and processes."
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
IEN is a US based alliance of Indigenous Peoples whose Shared Mission is to Protect the Sacredness of Earth Mother from contamination & exploitation by Respecting and Adhering to Indigenous Knowledge and Natural Law

Human Rights and the Environment by Dinah Shelton
Call Number: Internat 570 S545c
ISBN: 184980138X
Publication Date: 2011
2 volume set. The Radcliffe Science Library has a lending copy.
Wild Law : a manifesto for Earth justice by Cormac Cullinan; Thomas Berry (Foreword by)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9781900322904
Publication Date: 2nd edn 2011
Wild Law: in practice by Michelle Maloney (Editor); Peter Burdon (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 610 M257.5a
ISBN: 0415663342
Publication Date: 2014

Extending Rights/Legal Personality?

Rights and Legal Personality for Water/Rivers

Victorian Environmental Water Holder (Australia - via legislation) (public entity created to hold water rights etc)
Whanganui (NZ - via legislation)
Ganges and Yamuna (India - State of Uttarakhand via court decision 2017)
Amazon Ecosystem (Colombia - Supreme Court: STC 4360-2018))

Mohd. Salim v. State of Uttarakhand & others
Writ Petition (PIL) No.126 of 2014 (20/03/2017)
High Court of Uttarakhand at Nainital (India). ON EuropeanRights website "European Observer on fundamental right's respect"
Amazon Ecosystem (Colombia - Supreme Court: STC 4360-2018))
English summary of case with a pdf of the decision (in Spanish) available as free download. On website of ESCR-Net "over 280 social movements, NGOs and advocates across 75 countries— “seek to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.”
Rights of Nature: Timeline
Free resource. Maintained by Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) of US ("nearly 200 municipalities across the U.S. have enacted CELDF-drafted Community Rights laws which ban practices – including fracking, factory farming, sewage sludging of farmland, and water privatization – that violate the rights of people, communities and nature.")
The Rights of Nature: Reconsidered (Peter Burdon)
OA article (2010) 49 Australian Humanities Review 69

Should Trees Have Standing? by Christopher D. Stone
Call Number: General 510 S876.6a3
ISBN: 0199736073
Publication Date: (3rd ed., 2010)
Holders of an Oxford SSO can also access this online via title link

Rapid Transition Alliance
The Rapid Transition Alliance is a network of international organisations that are engaged in practical work, research and campaigning to tackle the climate emergencyThe Alliance is coordinated by a small group of people drawn from the New Weather Institute, the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies. The work of the Alliance is kindly supported by the KR Foundation.

Environmental Law: Rights, duties, justice

UN Human Rights Council recognition of a right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment

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