ENVS203: Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views

4.3: The Environmental Rights Movement

• 4.3.1: Links between Environmental Rights and Human Rights

  • World Health Organization: Dinah Shelton's "Human Rights, Health & Environmental Protection: Linkages in Law & Practice" URL

    This paper provides detailed links between human rights and environmental rights, and will help you to understand how environmental issues affect the goals of the WHO with respect to health issues and human rights.
    

  • Wikipedia: "United Nations Conference on the Human Environment" URL

    This article uses the 1972 Stockholm United Nations Conference on the Human Environment as a starting point for its discussion on environmental and human rights. This is the whole declaration made at that conference, this page also includes a link to a narrative of all 26 Principles. What did Principle I of the Stockholm Declaration state? How does this Principle cross over into human rights?
    

• 4.3.2: Environmental Rights Litigation

  • LawyersandSettlements.com: "Environmental Law" Page

    The text summarizes types of environmental litigation cases and explains how the lawsuit process works. Do you believe it is important to have strict enforcement of the laws to ensure compliance?
    

• 4.3.3: Modern-Day Environmental Management

  • Tom Theis and Jonathan Thomkin's "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation, Chapter 9: Modern Environmental Management" Page

    Read this chapter. From your readings thus far, can you link any changes in environmental management with major events which have shaped our attitudes towards the environment?

• 4.3.4: The Future of the Environmental Rights Movement

  • Science and Environmental Health Network: "Models for Protecting the Environment for Future Generations" URL

    The paper proposes how various organizations, individuals, and other non-governmental bodies can help secure the future for our environment. As you read the report, aim to identify the key ideas that you believe would make the biggest difference.
    

  • TED Talks: Majora Carter's "Greening the Ghetto" Page

    Watch this video, in which Majora Carter gives a touching lecture on growing up as a poor child in Bronx who is fighting for environmental justice. These individuals and groups are the future of alleviating environmental injustice in poor neighborhoods. She talks about all of the progress that is being made in her location.