Improved environmental protection through an expanded concept of human rights?

Environmental Policy and Law

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 213-216

  Rest, Alfred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Ger Fed Ministry for Environment

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ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; HUMAN RIGHTS;

EID: 0031411581     PISSN: 0378777X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. See generally, G. Alfredsson and A. Ovsiouk, Human Rights and the Environment, (60) Nordic J.Int'l L. 1991, pp. 19.
2. See Final Report of Fatma Zohra Ksentini, Economic and Social Council, UN Doc. E/CN.4/4.Sub.2/1994/9.
3. See A. Rest, The OPOSA Decision: Implementing the Principles of Intergenerational Equity and Responsibility, (24) Environmental Policy and Law, 1994, pp. 314.
4. For a discussion of human rights provisions related to environment see A. Kiss and D. Shelton, International Environmental Law, 1991, pp. 21.
5. For a survey of these environmental cases see A. Kley-Struller, Der Schutz der Umwelt durch die Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention, (22) EuGRZ 1995, pp. 507.
6. See R. Desgagné, Integrating Environmental Values into the European Convention on Human Rights, (89) AJIL 1995, pp. 263, 271.
7. Series A: Judgements and Decisions, Vol. 303.C, Case of López Ostra v. Spain.
8. On enhanced sanction mechanisms see A. Rest, Implementation of the Rio Targets. Preliminary Efforts in State Practice, (25) Environmental Policy and Law 1995, pp. 312.
9. Published in: (31) ILM 1992, pp. 247.
10. J. Pipkorn, La Communautée europeénne des droits de l'homme. Revue Trimestrielle des Droits de l'Homme 1993, p. 293; for further details see A.Rest, Europäischer Menschenrechtsschutz als Katalysator für ein verbessertes Umweltrecht, Natur und Recht 1997, pp. 209.
11. J. Pipkorn, La Communautée europeénne des droits de l'homme. Revue Trimestrielle des Droits de l'Homme 1993, p. 293; for further details see A.Rest, Europäischer Menschenrechtsschutz als Katalysator für ein verbessertes Umweltrecht, Natur und Recht 1997, pp. 209.