When Environmental Protection and Human Rights Collide

"This book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners interested in the protection of the environment and human rights. It questions the synergistic framing of the relationship between environmental protection and human rights by retrieving the numerous conflicts of norms that also underpin and define this relation"--

Part I. Constructing Synergies - Framing the Environment - Human Rights Interface: 1. Narratives of environmental and human rights protection - from a 'Pristine Wilderness' to a 'Human Environment'; 2. Horizons of synergy - adjudicating environmental and human rights protection; 3. Constructing and contesting anthropocentric synergies; 4. Countering the dominant frame - an account of trade-offs and tensions; Part II. Conflict Mediation through Universalisation: 5. The general interest as universalisation strategy; 6. Expert knowledge as universalisation strategy.