ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the dual importance of human rights and environmental health as expressed in international law. One dimension to the interrelationship between human rights and environmental protection is the link between particular human rights such as the right to participation in decision-making and good governance concepts relating to environmental issues. International environmental law instruments confirm the connection between the environment and human rights. Green Criminology is uniquely placed to evaluate the issues because it moves past legal frameworks and discourses to encompass sociological notions of environmental harm. Green Criminology has highlighted and explored the intersection between human rights and environmental crimes/harms. Recent work in Green Criminology has explored how the ‘rights’ of environmental entities could be protected by law and considered proposals for an international law against a crime of ecocide.
