Fundamental human rights are those rights that are ensured the highest degree of protection from their violation. These can be specifically identified in the world nations’ Constitutions, but can be found in other texts, such as in “the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights” or the “European Convention on Human Rights”, and many others. …
1.Introduction Global food production is the single largest human pressure on Earth threatening local ecosystems, driving a sixth mass extinction of species, and impacting the stability of the entire Earth system. Food systems depend heavily on land, water and energy resources and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, related climate change and other environmental …
“Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too …
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Abstract Water represents a crucial finite resource in the world, whose scarcity and uneven distribution at local, national and international level cause serious impacts and challenges at an environmental, social and economic scale, hindering human potential and sustainability. For this reason, at present, water management and governance have become a fundamental issue for governments and …
Abstract The scope for environmental protection through existing and internationally protected human rights is conditioned upon the establishment of a ‘link’ between environmental degradation and the impairment of a protected right. This constitutes a limit for the use of human rights as a tool to promote environmental protection.The aim of this article is to briefly …
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