Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene

Walter F. Baber is a professor in the Graduate Center for Public Policy at California State University, Long Beach and an expert in environmental law and politics. His book, Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence (with Robert V. Bartlett, Cambridge University Press, 2009) won the 2011 I.S.A. Book Award for international ethics. Baber was previously a Fulbright Scholar in Italy, Austria and twice in Sweden. James R. May is one of the world's leading authorities on Environmental Human Rights. He has published numerous related texts, including Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Global Environmental Constitutionalism, and Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Indivisibility, Dignity, Legality and Geography (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019). He has received many awards, including from the American Bar Association, Sierra Club, American Canoe Association, Widener University, and Pace University.

'… how can environmental human rights open a new opportunity for human survival and coexistence with nature? This book is a good starter for those who are interested in this question.' Juneseo Hwang, Ecokritike

• 1. Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene Michele Scobie; 2. Protecting Future Generations' Environmental Human Rights, Bridget Lewis; 3. Taking Environmental Rights in the Anthropocene Seriously – the Case of Biodiversity, Peter Gottschalk; 4. Framing Environmental Human Rights in the Anthropocene José Juste Ruiz, Maira del Mar Requena Quesada; 5. Human Rights and Wrongs: Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism, James R. May; 6. Pressure from Below: Subnational Governance, Human Rights, and Environmental Right Martha F. Davis; 7. Advancing Environmental Rights through Indigenous Rights, Margot Hurlbert; 8. Achieving (Climatic) Sustainability (as a Fundamental Right): Any Room for the Polar Regions? Ottavio Quirico; 9. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: the Significance of Goal 17 'Partnerships for the Goals' Emily S. Reid; 10. The Shape of Environmental Rights Opportunity Structures for the Anthropocene Walter F. BabeR; Conclusion; References; Index.