Human rights and the environment
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https://doi.org/10.12775/PPOS.2012.015Keywords
Human environmental rights, procedural environmental rights, material environmental rights, anthropocentrism in environmental human rights protectionAbstract
Human Rights and the environmental protection law are two, separately created and evolved systems. It was not earlier than the end of the twentieth century when the linkages between these two concepts started to be developed. The obvious correlation between the conditions of the life of a person and the environment in which this person lives has long waited to be discovered and reflected in a normative form. Human rights may foster the protection of the environment and the environmental law may to some extent, protect human beings as an element of nature. However the possibility to use human rights instruments to protect the environment is limited by the anthropocentrism of human rights, the lack of proper legal definitions of basic concepts connected with the right to the environment and the fact that both systems lack not a normative background, but an effective system of providing protection. This is the reason why the procedural rights are now an area of interest to lawyers and politicians. This article tries to answer a question about the possible future development in the field of environmental rights. If the human rights perspective can add new quality to environment protection, or is it just a way of repeating same concepts in a little bit more politically attractive way?References
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