Right to a Healthy Environment in and Beyond the Anthropocene

Contents:

Introduction: the right to a healthy environment revisited as
a necessary leverage point in times of climate crisis in Europe
and beyond? 1
Hendrik Schoukens and Farah Bouquelle

PART I REPOSITIONING THE RIGHT TO
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IN
A CHANGING INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT:
OVERARCHING CONCEPTUAL AND LEGAL
QUESTIONS
1 A half-century journey of human rights and the
environment in the international arena: from separation to
integration 34
Meng Zhang
2 Greening the European Convention on Human Rights:
how to determine the substance of environmental human rights? 53
Laurens Lavrysen
3 Strengthening the link between human health and biodiversity 72
An Cliquet and Frank Maes

PART II THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
FRAMED WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF EU
CLIMATE CHANGE, AIR QUALITY AND
WATER LAW: SHAKING UP THE HABITUAL?
4 The Shell case and the human rights argument in climate
litigation: building the narrative? 94
Carole M. Billiet
5 Healthy air as an obligation of result in the whole
European Union: definitely a matter of time 116
Delphine Misonne
6 The right to water and the right to a healthy environment:
does the Water Framework Directive map out the way ahead? 136
Peter De Smedt and Helena F.M.W. Van Rijswick

PART III NATURE AND ANIMAL WELFARE IN
EUROPE REVISITED: REINTERPRETING
THE RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
BEYOND THE ANTHROPOCENTRIC FRAMEWORK
7 Right to a healthy environment: linking ecocentrism with
anthropocentrism 166
Kari Kuusiniemi
8 Rights of nature in the European Union: a rights-based
approach as an inevitable outcome of increased
environmental protection in the Anthropocene? 184
Hendrik Schoukens
9 Some explorations about extending the right to a healthy
environment to future generations and animals 227
Geert Van Hoorick and Elien Verniers

PART IV CASE STUDIES FROM EUROPE AND
BEYOND: CROSS-POLLINATION OR LIVING
APART TOGETHER?
10 The right to a healthy environment and climate change:
a necessary match? 247
Robert Carnwath
11 China and the right to a healthy environment in the last
decade: practices from an unexpected frontrunner 259
Jianwei Zhang
12 Green constitutionalism in Belgium: the right to a healthy
environment as a principle of non-regression 285
Jan Theunis

PART V CHALLENGES TO ENFORCE THE RIGHT TO
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT: BRIDGING
THE GAP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
13 Right to a healthy environment and the remediation of
ecological damage: seeking effective remedies? 304
Ann Carette
14 The role of national courts: does the right to a healthy
environment make a difference to the environment?
Lessons learnt from national court rulings 322
Fruzsina Boegoes
15 Civil disobedience for a healthy environment 339
Pierre Lefranc

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• Direito ambiental
• Direito internacional dos direitos humanos
• Direito internacional do ambiente

Right to a healthy environment; European Convention of Human Rights; Biodiversity; Climate change; Restoration of ecological damage; Civil Disobedience