Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Conceptual Aspects

Abstract

Abstract To speak of a right to a healthy environment as a collective right, or to say that as part of their basic human rights individuals have certain entitlements in relation to the environment, is to use the language of rights to further particular objectives which the speaker thinks are important. In this respect discussion of ‘environmental rights’ is no different from the contemporary debate over abortion, self-determination, euthanasia, the rights of indigenous peoples and many other issues in which rights are asserted, challenged, and argued about by the proponents of different points of view. As these examples show, rights talk is both pervasive and exciting.

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