This book investigates how sustainability informs key principles and concepts of domestic
and international law. It calls for the recognition of ecological sustainability as a fundamental …

Highlights•Many governments, human rights bodies, and domestic courts see human rights
as critical to combating climate change.•Human rights emphasize the impacts of climate …

In spite of its official recognition by the United Nations in 2010, the human right to water
remains a contested notion as illustrated by three main debates:(a) the definition of its …

Human dignity is one of the most challenging and exciting ideas for lawyers and political
philosophers in the twenty-first century. Even though it is rapidly emerging as a core concept …

Today, numerous constitutions provide for a rights-based approach to environmental
protection. Based as they are on an instrumentalist rationality that seeks to promote human …

Based on the latest developments in ecological law in Latin America, including the
recognition of the rights of nature, this article examines emerging climate-related cases that …

The world can no longer deny that the planet is on the verge of an Anthropocene
catastrophe. As scientists from different fields and from around the globe are discussing the …

Humanity is at a crossroads in addressing biodiversity loss. Several assessments have
reported on the weak compliance with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets by the parties to the …

This paper examines whether the Anthropocene can be a helpful metaphor for holistic
understandings of human impacts on the Earth. I argue that for this, splitting the …

This essay introduces the legal dimensions of the Anthropocene, ie the currently advocated
new geological epoch in which humans are the defining force. It explores in this context two …