Environmental Protection In Nigeria A Human Rights Approach

Author : Joel Odili
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346511200
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental protection in Nigeria. A human rights approach written by Joel Odili and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Public International Law and Human Rights, grade: 5.0, University of Lagos (Law), course: Environmental Law II, language: English, abstract: This paper sets out to consider all the alternatives for the enforcement of the environmental right, bringing into focus the various human right instruments both at the international and regional level. The constant degradation and pollution of the environment has stimulated both at the international and national level concerns as to its effect on the natural resources, wild life and human life. It has in fact been considered as the fourth generational right in the generational matrix due to the rising global issues of conversion of natural resources and safeguard of the environment. At the international scale, the United Nation in its sustainable development growth program has incorporated these environmental issues as part of its goals; climate action (Goal 13); life below water (Goal 14); life on land (Goal 15). At the regional and national level, environmental rights have been incorporated in the African charter and the 1999 constitution of Nigeria, respectively. The vagueness of these provisions have made its realization slim in view of the difficulty the court would be faced with interpreting such provisions in line with the prevalent situations in Nigeria. This paper seeks to look at the provisions of international, regional, and national human right instruments that guarantees the right to a clean and healthy environment and how they can be applied to enforce such right in Nigeria.

Author : Bolaji Abdulkadir Abdulkadir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Approach to Environmental Protection with Special Reference to the Niger Delta of Nigeria written by Bolaji Abdulkadir Abdulkadir and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protections of environment and human rights are among the foremost concerns of international community. Towards the end of twentieth century, the linkages between the protection of human rights and environment began to manifest. Since then, there has been increasing awareness and acknowledgement of the correlation between the two subjects. The degradation of the Niger Delta environment from petroleum activities has led to the incidences of human rights violations notwithstanding the adoption of human rights treaties and fundamental human rights in the Nigerian Constitution. This has led to the violation of the right to life, right to the enjoyment of property, access to clean water, and the right to a clean and healthful environment. Therefore, this thesis examines the relationship between human rights and the environment as an attempt to show the indivisibility of the two fields. It seeks to discover how environmental degradation affects the enjoyment of basic human rights to the people of Niger Delta Region. The research-work also assesses the effectiveness or otherwise of the legal framework on environmental protection in Nigeria. This is done through the examination of the constitutional status on environment and arrays of legislations dealing with environment. Also, the thesis assesses the effectiveness of tort law remedies to environmental dispute and justice system in Nigeria. It also explores how human rights provisions can be used to protect the environment. This was done through the examination of substantive and procedural rights such as the right to life, equality right, right to property, right of access to information and right to participation that have been found to be of immense use in the pursuit of environmental justice. The thesis primarily adopts qualitative method of research, which involves both doctrinal and non-doctrinal legal research. On this note, the research work finds the existing laws on environment in Nigeria to be weak and insufficient and this underscores the unsatisfactory performance of the regulatory bodies. This thesis also finds that judicial creativity and wisdom have shown that there are a number of benefits of using human rights provisions than other available remedies in the quest for environmental protection and justice. As a result of these findings, the research work suggests some recommendations in order to reinforce the legal frameworks and improve environmental justice. Also, important recommendations are made to both the government and the public so as to enhance access to environmental justice and promote human rights.

Author : Alan E. Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection written by Alan E. Boyle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment, by Alan Boyle

Author : Michael Addaney
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030465233
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and the Environment under African Union Law written by Michael Addaney and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together original and novel perspectives on major developments in human rights law and the environment in Africa. Focusing on African Union law, the book explores the core concepts and principles, theory and practice, accountability mechanisms and key issues challenging human rights law in the era of global environmental change. It, thus, extend the frontier of understanding in this fundamental area by building on existing scholarship on African human rights law and the protection of the environment, divulging concerns on redressing environmental and human rights protection issues in the context of economic growth and sustainable development. It further offers unique insight into the development, domestication and implementation challenges relating to human rights law and environmental governance in Africa. This long overdue interdisciplinary exploration of human rights law and the environment from an African perspective will be an indispensable reference point for academics, policymakers, practitioners and advocates of international human rights and environmental law in particular and international law, environmental politics and philosophy, and African studies in general. It is clear that there is much to do, study and share on this timely subject in the African context.

Author : Jean-Claude N. Ashukem
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000997677
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and the Environment in Africa written by Jean-Claude N. Ashukem and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between human rights and the environment, as evidenced by the recent UN Resolution on the human right to a healthy environment, is a topical, fascinating, uneasy, and increasingly urgent one. This timely collection explores the inextricable relationship between human rights and the environment as a critical lens for understanding and addressing key human rights and environmental issues confronting Africa. The work explores theoretical, philosophical, doctrinal, and empirical research to interrogate and provide clarity on how and whether the human rights-based approach to environmental protection and policy implications has been effective in enhancing environmental protection and sustainability in Africa. It brings together an elite group of African and international experts to investigate the increasing connectivity and problems with African human rights, environmental governance, and the quest for sustainability. The book is divided into thematic clusters, including: the right of vulnerable communities to sustainability; climate change, the right to development and natural resource governance; corporate environmental responsibility and sustainability; the philosophy of environmental ethics and theories of human rights approaches to environmental governance; procedural environmental rights; the role of the judiciary in environmental protection; and desertification. These themes provide a structure to investigate and clarify specific fundamental questions on Africa’s environmental governance paradigm. This innovative contribution provides an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical interrelationship and use of human rights approaches to ensure and enhance environmental protection and sustainability. As such, the book will be of interest to African scholars, researchers and students in Human Rights Law, Environmental Studies, Political Science, Ecology and Conservation and Development Studies. It will also be a valuable resource for policymakers, governments, NGOs, practitioners, and all those interested in African environmental governance.

Author : Jean-Claude N. Ashukem
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000994376
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic and Regional Environmental Laws and Policies in Africa written by Jean-Claude N. Ashukem and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores African domestic and regional responses and approaches to environmental protection and sustainability. Written by African experts, the collection consists of five parts covering the whole of Africa. It provides broad coverage of specific themes, including environmental constitutionalism, climate change, gender and the environment, wildlife trade, environmental justice, and human displacement. The key aims are first, to explore theoretical and empirical studies to interrogate and provide clarity on academic discourse on how and whether environmental human rights approaches and policy implications have effectively enhanced environmental protection and sustainability at African domestic levels. Second, to investigate and present innovative solutions on how African domestic legal regimes deal with environmental justice, natural resources governance, refugees’ environmental rights, and climate-induced displaced persons. Finally, to propose innovative legal and institutionalised solutions to Africa’s ecological realities by determining the legal and regulatory gaps on environmental human rights issues on the continent. The collection will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and policymakers in human rights law, environmental law, political science, ecology and conservation, environmental management, disaster management, and development studies.

Author : Alan E. Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection written by Alan E. Boyle and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Uzuazo Etemire
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317524446
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Practice on Public Participation in Environmental Matters written by Uzuazo Etemire and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public participation has become a recurring theme and a topical issue in the field of international environmental law, with many multilateral environmental instruments calling on states to guarantee effectively the concept in their laws and practices. This book focuses on public participation in environmental governance, in terms of public access to environmental information and public participation in environmental decision-making processes. Drawing on the body of international best practice principles in environmental law and taking a comparative stance, Uzuazo Etemire takes Nigeria as a key case, evaluating its procedural laws and practices in relation to public access to information and participation in decision-making in environmental matters. In working to clarify and deepen understanding of the current status of environmental public participation rights in Nigeria, the book addresses key issues in environmental governance for developing and transitional countries and the potential for public participation to improve the state of the environment and public wellbeing. This book will be of great interest to undergraduate students (as further reading) and post-graduate students, academics, researchers, relevant government agencies and departments, policy-makers and NGOs in the fields of international environmental law, environmental justice, environmental/natural resource management, development studies and international finance.

Author : Donald K. Anton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139498525
Total Pages : 1025 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Protection and Human Rights written by Donald K. Anton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 1025 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unique scholarly analysis and practical discussion, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the relationship between environmental protection and human rights being formalized into law in many legal systems. This book instructs on environmental techniques and procedures that assist in the protection of human rights. The text provides cogent guidance on a growing international jurisprudence on the promotion and protection of human rights in relation to the environment that has been developed by international and regional human rights bodies and tribunals. It explores a rich body of case law that continues to develop within states on the environmental dimension of the rights to life, to health, and to public participation and access to information. Five compelling contemporary case studies are included that implicate human rights and the environment, ranging from large dam projects to the creation of a new human right to a clean environment.

Author : Bronwen Manby
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
ISBN 13 : 9781564322258
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Price of Oil written by Bronwen Manby and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to Import Weapons