Oxford LibGuides: Environmental Law: Rights, duties, justice

Jurisprudence collection includes

Economics of Environmental Law by Richard Brooks (Editor); Nathaniel O. Keohane (Editor); Douglas A. Kysar (Editor)
Call Number: Jurisp 510 B873.7a
ISBN: 1848441029
Publication Date: 2009
2 volume set
Wild law : a manifesto for Earth justice by Cormac Cullinan.
Call Number: Jurisp 510 C967a
ISBN: 1903998352
Publication Date: 2003
Justice to Future Generations and the Environment by Hendrik P. Visser't Hooft
Call Number: Jurisp 510 V834.5a
ISBN: 0792357566
Publication Date: 1999

Searching for titles on SOLO

When researching this topic, you may find useful titles in other sections of its collection eg Human Rights (Internat 570) or legal philosophy Jurisprudence (Jurisp) or comparative studies (General).

Indeed you may well find that you need to visit other Bodleian Libraries too - such as the SSL Social Science Library and the RSL Radcliffe Science Library & the Philosophy Reading Rooms.

Subject search terms which could start you off searching our online catalogue SOLO

Environmental justice

Environmental policy

Environmental responsibility

Economic development - environmental aspects

Sustainable development

Environmental Protection and Human Rights
Global justice, natural resources, and climate change
Aarhus Convention
Earth Law Network
Gaia Foundation website is currently [Jan 2017] being redesigned. It is to be hoped this section on Principles, projects & campaigns will reappear.
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

Public International Law Books are shelved on Level 3

Human Rights and the Environment by Dinah Shelton
Call Number: Internat 570 S545c
ISBN: 184980138X
Publication Date: 2011
2 volume set. "In this topical collection, Professor Dinah Shelton brings together seminal articles published since the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment that discuss and debate the linkages between human rights and environmental protection." The Radcliffe Science Library has a lending copy.
Environmental Protection and the European Convention on Human Rights by Daniel I. García San José
Call Number: Internat 570 C856y/21
ISBN: 9789287156983
Publication Date: 2005
Also published in French under title: La protection de l'environnement et la Convention européenne des Droits de l'Homme. ISBN: 9287156972.
Wild Law: in practice by Michelle Maloney (Editor); Peter Burdon (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 610 M257.5a
ISBN: 0415663342
Publication Date: 2014
"selected from presentations given at a multidisciplinary conference held in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2011"

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.”
advancing Legal 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)