ABSTRACT
The relationship between human rights and the environment, as evidenced by the 2022 UN Resolution on the human right to a healthy environment, is a topical, fascinating, uneasy, and increasingly urgent one. This timely collection explores the inextricable relationship between human rights and the environment as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key human rights and environmental issues confronting Africa.
The work explores theoretical, philosophical, and doctrinal, research to interrogate and provide clarity on how and whether the human rightsbased approach to environmental protection and policy implications has been effective in enhancing environmental protection and sustainability in Africa. It brings together an elite group of African and international experts to investigate the increasing connectivity and problems with African human rights, environmental governance, and the quest for sustainability.
The book is divided into thematic clusters, including the right of vulnerable communities to sustainability; climate change, the right to development and natural resource governance; corporate environmental responsibility and sustainability; the philosophy of environmental ethics and theories of human rights approaches to environmental governance; procedural environmental rights; the role of the judiciary in environmental protection; and desertification. These themes provide a structure to investigate and clarify specific fundamental questions on Africa’s environmental governance paradigm.
This innovative contribution provides an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical interrelationship and use of human rights approaches to ensure and enhance environmental protection and sustainability. As such, the book will be of interest to African scholars, researchers, and students in human rights law, environmental studies, political science, ecology and conservation, and development studies. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, governments, NGOs, practitioners, and all those interested in African environmental governance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
Introduction
part 1|77 pages
Legal, theoretical, and philosophical issues of human rights and the environment in Africa
chapter 2|20 pages
Critical reflections on rights theory and environmental ethics in environmental jurisprudence
chapter 4|19 pages
Human rights and the environment in pursuit of sustainability in Africa
chapter 5|16 pages
Human rights and the pursuit of environmental sustainability in Africa
part 2|63 pages
Procedural environmental rights in Africa
chapter 7|20 pages
Procedural rights and trans-regional environmental governance in pursuit of sustainability in Africa
chapter 8|22 pages
Pursuing environmental sustainability in Africa
part 3|77 pages
Judiciary and the environment in Africa
chapter 9|18 pages
Stepping into the future of environmental sustainability in Africa 1
chapter 11|17 pages
The judiciary and environmental protection in Africa in pursuit of sustainability
part 4|91 pages
Rights to development and natural resources in Africa
chapter 13|19 pages
Land grabbing and the right to a healthy environment
chapter 14|18 pages
Contested priority in the pursuit of sustainability in Africa
chapter 16|17 pages
The inefficacy of international law to address biodiversity loss in Africa
part 5|43 pages
Rights of vulnerable communities and sustainability in Africa
chapter 18|22 pages
The rights of vulnerable communities to development in pursuit of environmental sustainability in Africa
part 6|39 pages
Climate change and migration in Africa
chapter 20|21 pages
Climate action and the pursuit of environmental sustainability in Africa
part 7|50 pages
Desertification in Africa