Human Rights and Sustainability

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Addresses the connections between human rights and environmental sustainability. Legal and scholarly approaches linking these areas present new perspectives for addressing some of the greatest challenges of our time, given the important resource dimensions of economic and social rights and the human dimensions of sustainability. Yet human rights demands and environmental concerns are not always in harmony. Explores these tensions and opportunities by examining three substantive areas: urban ecology and human rights, the human right to food, and the human rights implications of extractive industries such as oil and mining. Following an introduction to the key concepts of human rights and sustainability, explores the substantive areas through theoretical and empirical readings on each; grassroots accounts of struggles over environment-related human rights; and selections from literature and film that illustrate the environmental justice issues at stake.