The human right to a green future : environmental rights and intergenerational justice /

Hiskes, Richard P., 1951-

The human right to a green future : environmental rights and intergenerational justice / [book] Richard P. Hiskes - New York : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - x, 171 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-159) and index.

Environmental human rights and intergenerational justice -- Emergent human rights, identity, harms, and duties -- Reflexive reciprocity and intergenerational environmental justice -- Cosmopolitan ethics, communal reciprocity, and global environmentalism -- Toward a global consensus on environmental human rights -- Human rights as inheritance : instituting intergenerational environmental justice -- Conclusion : environmental justice and the emergent future of human rights

9780521696142 (pbk.)


Environmental law
Human rights

K3585 / .H57 2009