Environmental justice and the rights of indigenous peoples : international and domestic legal perspectives
The timing of Laura Westra?s important work couldn?t be better in furthering the understanding between environmental degradation and the human rights of indigenous peoples. The world can no longer carry on "business as usual" when the basic rights of the vulnerable are being diminished and often destroyed due to a "disconnect" between development and environmental protection. Laura?s work will no doubt help to connect these crucial dots of the disproportionate negative extended ecological footprint of a globalized economy on the Arctic and its people.? Sheila Watt-Cloutier
1 online resource (x, 352 pages)
9781849771177, 9781435616325, 9781281191106, 1849771170, 1435616324, 1281191108
186234504
Contents; Foreword; Preamble; Acknowledgements; PART ONE Basic Issues, Principles and Historical Background; Chapter 1 The Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Eco-footprint Crime and the 'Biological/Ecological Integrity Model' to Achieve Environmental Justice; Chapter 2 Cultural Integrity and Ecological Integrity: The Interface and International Law; Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism and Natural Law for the Recovery of Individual and Community Rights; PART TWO Selected Examples from Domestic and International Case Law. Chapter 4 Indigenous Peoples and Minorities in International Jurisprudence and the Responsibility of the World BankChapter 5 The United States and Indigenous Peoples: Some Recent ATCA Jurisprudence; Chapter 6 First Nations of Canada and the Legal and Illegal Attacks on Their Existence; PART THREE Justifying Genocide: Principles and Reality; Chapter 7 Genocide and Eco-crime: The Interface; Chapter 8 Aboriginal Rights in Domestic and International Law, and the Special Case of Arctic Peoples; PART F