Untying the Gordian Knot: Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment?

Francesco Francioni; Ottavio Quirico

Untying the Gordian Knot: Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment?

Francesco Francioni
, Ottavio Quirico

School of Law

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Abstract

The Declaration adopted at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm, Sweden, provides that the concept of 'environment' includes the 'natural resources of the earth, including the air, water, land, flora and fauna'. The most important reason for focusing today on a human rights approach to environmental protection lies in the existential challenge posed to humanity by the impending threat of anthropogenic climate change. However, is this situation sufficient in itself to justify such an approach, particularly based on a right to a (climatically) sustainaible, satisfactory, safe, clean, healthy environment(al) protection ?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Climate Change and Human Rights: An international and comparative law perspective
Editors	Ottavio Quirico, Mouloud Bhoumgar
Place of Publication	London, United Kingdom
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	133-156
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9781138783218, 9781315767185
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Name	Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
ISSN (Electronic)	2155-9384

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 13 Climate Action

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Environmental and Natural Resources Law
International Law (excl. International Trade Law)
Human Rights Law

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Francioni, F., & Quirico, O. (2016). Untying the Gordian Knot: Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment? In O. Quirico, & M. Bhoumgar (Eds.), Climate Change and Human Rights: An international and comparative law perspective (1 ed., pp. 133-156). (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law). Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18637

Francioni, Francesco ; Quirico, Ottavio. / Untying the Gordian Knot : Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment?. Climate Change and Human Rights: An international and comparative law perspective. editor / Ottavio Quirico ; Mouloud Bhoumgar. 1. ed. London, United Kingdom : Routledge, 2016. pp. 133-156 (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law).

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Francioni, F & Quirico, O 2016, Untying the Gordian Knot: Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment? in O Quirico & M Bhoumgar (eds), Climate Change and Human Rights: An international and comparative law perspective. 1 edn, Routledge Research in International Environmental Law, Routledge, London, United Kingdom, pp. 133-156. <https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/18637>

Untying the Gordian Knot: Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment? / Francioni, Francesco; Quirico, Ottavio.
Climate Change and Human Rights: An international and comparative law perspective. ed. / Ottavio Quirico; Mouloud Bhoumgar. 1. ed. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2016. p. 133-156 (Routledge Research in International Environmental Law).

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Untying the Gordian Knot: Towards the human right to a climatically sustainable environment?

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