Overview
- Discusses human rights and environmental law in Africa from an African perspective
- Brings together scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds
- Explores the challenges as well as opportunities of human rights protection and sustainable development in Africa
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About this book
This long overdue interdisciplinary exploration of human rights law and the environment from an African perspective will be an indispensable reference point for academics, policymakers, practitioners and advocates of international human rights and environmental law in particular and international law, environmental politics and philosophy, and African studies in general. It is clear that there is much to do, study and share on this timely subject in the African context.
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Keywords
- human rights
- environmental law
- human rights law and the environment
- climate change and human rights
- environmental law and the global south
- climate governance
- environmental policy
- African law
- human rights in Africa
- Environmental Protection
- cultural and social oppression
- sustainable development
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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New Frontiers in Human Rights and Environment: Environmental Protection Under African Union Law
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Enforcement of Environmental Rights by Judicial and Quasi-Judicial Institutions
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Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Regional and National Case Studies
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ademola Oluborode Jegede is Professor of Law in the Department of Public Law, University of Venda, South Africa. He has been a research visitor to the Centre for International Environmental Law, USA, Human Rights Institute at Abo Akademi, Finland, and a fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria. His research focuses on the interface of climate change with human rights of vulnerable groups and general international human rights law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law
Editors: Michael Addaney, Ademola Oluborode Jegede
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46523-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46522-3Published: 22 August 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-46525-4Published: 22 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-46523-0Published: 21 August 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 477
Topics: International Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Human Geography, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Environmental Geography