The global emergence of constitutional environmental rights / Joshua C. Gellers.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

K3585 .G45 2017

9781138696495 (hbk.)
1138696498 (hbk.)
9781315524412 (ebk)
1315524414
9781315524412

xiv, 150 pages ; 24 cm.

(OCoLC)982448611

"Over the past 40 years, countries throughout the world have similarly adopted human rights related to environmental governance and protection in national constitutions. Interestingly, these countries vary widely in terms of geography, politics, history, resources, and wealth. This raises the question: why do some countries have constitutional environmental rights while others do not? Bringing together theory from law, political science, and sociology, a global statistical analysis, and a comparative study of constitutional design in South Asia, [the author] presents a...response to this important question. Moving beyond normative debates and anecdotal developments in case law, as well as efforts to describe and categorize such rights around the world, this book provides a systematic analysis of the expansion of environmental rights using social science methods and theory. The resulting theoretical framework and empirical evidence offer new insights into how domestic and international factors interact during the constitution drafting process to produce new law that is both locally relevant and globally resonant."-- Back cover.

"A GlassHouse book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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