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Donald, Kate --- "Human rights practice: a means to environmental ends?" [2015] ELECD 860; in Grear, Anna; Grant, Evadne (eds), "Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 191

Book Title: Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis

Editor(s): Grear, Anna; Grant, Evadne

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784711320

Section: Chapter 7

Section Title: Human rights practice: a means to environmental ends?

Author(s): Donald, Kate

Number of pages: 31

Abstract/Description:

Can human rights practice in its current dominant forms tackle the challenge of climate change and environmental degradation? 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 to moving forward the environmental agenda, their potential for doing so is largely unrealised. The author 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. Keywords human rights; environment; praxis; climate change; United Nations; development; activism