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Coyle, Sean --- "Property rights, environmental justice and worldly order – lessons from natural law" [2015] ELECD 666; in Grear, Anna; Kotzé, J. Louis (eds), "Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 102

Book Title: Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment

Editor(s): Grear, Anna; Kotzé, J. Louis

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782544425

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Property rights, environmental justice and worldly order – lessons from natural law

Author(s): Coyle, Sean

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

This Chapter provides an analysis of the relationship between property rights and justice in the context of the international environment. It suggests that the traditional dichotomy of anthropocentric and ecocentric viewpoints sheds no useful light on the question of justice, and that the problem is in reality one which demands to be considered from the perspective of natural law. The main body of the essay represents a gesture in the direction of such an account, as it can be collected from the thought of Aquinas and Grotius.