Despite the clear link between climate change and human rights with the potential for
virtually all protected rights to be undermined as a result of climate change, its catastrophic …

Human rights are considered ethical demands that operate at an elevated juridical level.
They have become popular legal constructs that contribute to the traditional instrumentalist …

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is
impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on …

ABSTRACT In March 2017, the High Court of Uttarakhand in India ruled in the Ganges and
Yamuna and the Glaciers cases that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, the Gangotri and …

Today, numerous constitutions provide for a rights-based approach to environmental
protection. Based as they are on an instrumentalist rationality that seeks to promote human …

This opening contribution to 'Social-Environmental Conflicts, Extractivism and Human Rights
in Latin America'analyses how human rights have emerged as a weapon in the political …

This article considers how a phenomenological perspective contributes to the theme of
'human bodies in material space'. The author reviews several central phenomenological …

International lawyers and courts consider the principle of systemic integration to be a
potential answer to difficulties arising from the fragmentation of public international law. This …

Although nomadic peoples are scattered worldwide and have highly heterogeneous
lifestyles, they face similar threats to their mobile livelihood and survival. Commonly …

Contrary to calls for increased relevance, the discipline of political science has had lasting
impacts in shaping environmental policy analysis. The ideas and approach advocated by …