Constitutionalizing the Right to an Adequate Environment: Challenges of Principle
Argues that any state that is constitutionally committed to the recognition of human rights ought to constitutionalise a right to an adequate environment. Rebuts
the claim that constitutional provisions relating to the human right to an adequate environment should be made only in the form of a policy statement and not as a fundamental right. Rebuts the further claim that the right to an adequate environment should be placed with those rights of a second order – the ‘social rights’ – rather than among the fundamental rights of a constitution. Problematises the distinction between fundamental and social rights, but also shows why the right to an adequate environment does not resemble a social right.
Keywords: constitution, constitutional rights, environmental rights, fundamental rights, policy statements, procedural rights, social rights, substantive rights
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