Human Rights Practice: A Means to Environmental Ends?

<p>Can human rights practice in its current dominant forms tackle the challenge of climate change and global environmental degradation? This article argues that although there is now increased recognition of the links between human rights and the environment, and while human rights tools and p...

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Main Author: Kate Donald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-12-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2247850
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Summary:<p>Can human rights practice in its current dominant forms tackle the challenge of climate change and global environmental degradation? This article argues that although there is now increased recognition of the links between human rights and the environment, and while human rights tools and principles can contribute in some concrete ways in moving forward the environmental agenda, their potential for doing is so far largely unrealised. The article analyses three different approaches used by advocates and activists in this field, before discussing potential alternatives and examples of radical or hybrid approaches, with a view to articulating a strategy for activism and praxis that can capture the real and lived inter-connectedness of human rights enjoyment and environmental factors more meaningfully.</p> <hr /><p>&iquest;Puede la pr&aacute;ctica de los derechos humanos en sus formas dominantes actuales hacer frente al desaf&iacute;o del cambio clim&aacute;tico y la degradaci&oacute;n global del medio ambiente? Este art&iacute;culo sostiene que, aunque ahora hay un mayor reconocimiento de los v&iacute;nculos entre los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente, y mientras que las herramientas y principios de los derechos humanos pueden contribuir en avanzar de manera concreta la agenda ambiental, su potencial se encuentra frustrado en gran parte hasta el momento. El art&iacute;culo analiza tres enfoques diferentes utilizados por los defensores y activistas en este campo, antes de discutir alternativas y ejemplos de enfoques radicales o h&iacute;bridos, con el fin de articular una estrategia para el activismo y la praxis que pueda capturar de manera m&aacute;s significativa la interconexi&oacute;n real y vivida del disfrute de los derechos humanos y de los factores medioambientales.
ISSN:2079-5971