Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law

Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law

Addaney, Michael; Oluborode Jegede, Ademola

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

08/2021

477

Mole

Inglês

9783030465254

15 a 20 dias

665

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Part I: New Frontiers in Human Rights and Environment: Environmental Protection under African Union Law.- Chapter One: Human Rights, Regional Law and the Environment in Africa: Legal and Conceptual Foundations; Michael Addaney, Chantelle Gloria Moyo and Thabang Ramakhula.- Chapter Two: The Right to a Clean, Safe and Healthy Environment under the African Human Rights System; Mulesa Lumina.- Chapter Three: Should a human right to a safe climate be recognized under the AU human rights system?; Ademola Oluborode Jegede.- Chapter Four: Advancing human rights through environmental rule of law in Africa; Funmi Abioye.- Chapter Five: Women's environmental human rights in Africa with reflections on key provisions of the Maputo Protocol; Elsabe Boshoff.- Chapter Six: The Personhood of Natural Entities: African Approaches to the Recognition of Rights of Nature; Oluwabusayo Temitope Wuraola.- Part II: Enforcement of Environmental Rights by Judicial and Qasi-judicial Institutions.- Chapter Seven: Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Human Rights in Africa; Emma Charlene Lubaale.- Chapter Eight: Safeguarding environmental rights in the works of African regional human rights courts and tribunals; Michael Addaney and Chantelle Gloria Moyo.- Chapter Nine: International Environmental Governance: A Case for Sub-Regional Judiciaries in Africa; Eghosa Osa Ekhator.- Chapter Ten: Climate change as a 'constitutional essential': Trend and significance for Africa; Ademola Oluborode Jegede.- Part III: Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Regional and National Case Studies.- Chapter Eleven: Implementing human-rights-related environmental obligations in Ethiopia; Desalegn Amsalu.- Chapter Twelve: Women's Right to Participation in Environmental Decision-making in Uganda; Charlotte Kabaseke.- Chapter Thirteen: Connecting human rights and the environment in Cameroon: Successes, challenges and prospects; Jean-Claude N. Ashukem.- Chapter Fourteen: The Judiciary and Environmental Protection in Zimbabwe; Brewsters Caiphas Soyapi.- Chapter Fifteen: Human Rights-Based Approach to Environmental Protection: Kenyan, South African and Nigerian Constitutional Architecture and Experience; Collins Odote.- Part IV: Business Practices, Human Rights and the Environment.- Chapter Sixteen: Human Rights and Energy in a Neo-Liberal Southern Africa; Lenin Tinashe Chisaira.- Chapter Seventeen: Trade, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in Africa with special reference to the Extractive Sector; Omphemetse S. Sibanda Snr.
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