Environmental rights and wrongs.
Once a fringe issue largely confined to elite scientific deliberation, global climate change now dominates academic, social, and political debate. What is unclear, however, is whether the upswing in attention to climate change has spawned the type of multidisciplinary debate necessary to create effective long-term solutions. Nowhere is this disjunction more apparent than at the intersection between climate change and human health. Despite progress on the part of the international community in negotiating legal instruments to address climate change, these instruments do not directly address links between climate change and human health. Consequently, few people have a thorough grasp of the likely adverse impacts of climate change on human health. In this article, we examine the links between environmental change-focusing primarily but not exclusively on climate change-and the concept of a human right to health.
Depledge
Michael H
MH
University of Oxford, UK.
Carlarne
Cinnamon P
CP
D002980:Climate; D004782:Environmental Health; D006806:Human Rights