All Outputs (19)

The American convention on human rights and environmental rights standards (2019)
Book Chapter

Until recently, environmental standards have received attention within the Inter-American regional human rights system, primarily in the context of the rights of indigenous peoples. In developing environmental standards, the Inter-American Commission... Read More about The American convention on human rights and environmental rights standards.

Indigeneity, human rights and the environment (2018)
Journal Article

Editorial

Editorial - The legitimacy of human rights courts in environmental disputes (2015)
Journal Article

International human rights courts and environmental human rights: Re-imagining adjudicative paradigms (2015)
Journal Article

Re-imagining adjudication: Human rights courts and the environment (2015)
Book Chapter

Introduction: Thought, law, rights and action in an age of environmental crisis – in search of better future histories (2015)
Book Chapter

Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis (2015)
Book

This timely book combines theoretical reflections, doctrinal analyses and insights drawn from rights-based praxis to offer thoughtful and at times provocative engagements with the limitations of law as it faces the complexities of contemporary socio-... Read More about Thought, Law, Rights and Action in the Age of Environmental Crisis.

International courts and environmental human rights: Re-imagining adjudicative paradigms (2015)
Book Chapter

Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 Cambridge University Press. Increasing investment in agricultural land by global corporations and investors from wealthy developed nations in poorer, less developed countries has significant human rights and environmental impacts. Proponents o... Read More about Land grabbing, sustainable development and human rights.

A human rights assessment of hydraulic fracturing and other unconventional gas development in the United Kingdom (2014)
Report

Customary law and human rights (2013)
Book Chapter

Land grabbing: New challenges for food security and the environment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agriculture, food security and the environment: Policy and regulatory challenges (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Human rights and the environment: In search of a new relationship. Synergies and common themes (2013)
Journal Article

Human Dignity and Socio-Economic Rights (2012)
Journal Article

The South African Constitution numbers among a very few constitutions around the world which include justiciable socio-economic rights. One of the controversies surrounding judicial enforcement of such rights is the extent to which it is appropriate... Read More about Human Dignity and Socio-Economic Rights.

A right to water - A geographico-legal perspective (2011)
Book Chapter

Accountability for Human Rights abuses: Taking the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human rights seriously (2008)
Journal Article

In spite of the endorsement by the vast majority of states of the 1993 Vienna Declaration and its affirmation of the universality, indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, the weak implementation of social and economic rights remains p... Read More about Accountability for Human Rights abuses: Taking the universality, indivisibility, interdependence and interrelatedness of human rights seriously.

Enforcing social and economic rights: The right to adequate housing in South Africa (2007)
Journal Article

Judicial implementation of rights-based approaches to environmental governance: Regional perspectives
Book Chapter

The question addressed in this chapter is whether human rights law, as it is currently practised, adequately recognizes and reflects the complex interdependence of human rights and the environment. In particular, do human rights courts take sufficien... Read More about Judicial implementation of rights-based approaches to environmental governance: Regional perspectives.