Linking human rights and the environment /
Human rights and the environment
Romina Picolotti and Jorge Daniel Taillant, editors.
- Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2003.
- xviii, 264 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The environmental jurisprudence of international human rights tribunals / Dinah Shelton -- The right to the conservation of the environment / Alexandre Kiss -- Agenda 21 and human rights : the right to participate / Romina Picolotti -- Public participation in the era of globalization / Claudia Saladin -- The right to water as a human right / Ignacio J. Alvarez -- Women's rights and the global population crisis / Michael G. Shaw -- How human rights norms can contribute to environmental protection : some practical possibilities within the United Nations system / Caroline Dommen -- Environmental advocacy and the inter-American human rights system / Jorge Daniel Taillant -- Sharing common ground : a cautionary tale on the rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of biological diversity / Annecoos Wiersema -- The Mayagna Indigenous Community of Awas Tingni and its effort to gain recognition of traditional lands : the community's case before the human rights institutions of the Organization of American States / S. James Anaya.