Author
Alan Boyle ( University of Edinburgh )
Keywords
Human rights, greening of the rights to life, private life and property, anthropocentric, environmental rights, eco-centric
Abstract
Should we continue to think about human rights and the environment within the existing framework of human rights law in which the protection of humans is the central focus – essentially a greening of the rights to life, private life and property – or has the time come to talk directly about environmental rights – in other words to have the environment itself protected? Should we transcend the anthropocentric in favour of the ecocentric?
Citation
(2007) 18 Fordham Environmental Law Review 471-511