Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability

摘要

Kerri Woods' new book asks whether environmental values and human rights values are mutually supportive. She identifies three distinct steps in this evaluation. First, what is the political added value of grounding environmental claims in human rights regimes, institutions, and language? Second, are human rights values and sustainability values coherent or in conflict? Third, should scholars and activists use environmental human rights as a conceptual frame for their action? She approaches these questions through three perspectives: a conceptual one, a normative one, and one of political relevance.