The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice » (New Edition)

Richard P. Hiskes (October 31, 1951) is Professor of Political Science and Senior Political Theorist at the University of Connecticut. He is the Editor of the Journal of Human Rights and Director of the Human Rights Minor. He is the author or co-author of four other books, most recently of Democracy, Risk and Community: Environmental Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism (1998). Professor Hiskes has published work in a variety of topics within political theory, human rights theory, environmental ethics, and science and technology policy. He has published articles in many journals, including Review of Politics, Human Rights Quarterly, Public Affairs Quarterly, Human Rights Review, Hume Studies, Women and Politics, Policy Studies, and others.

This book presents an argument for environmental human rights as the basis of intergenerational environmental justice.

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Environmental Human Rights and Intergenerational Justice 5

2 Emergent Human Rights, Identity, Harms, and Duties 26

3 Reflexive Reciprocity and Intergenerational Environmental Justice 48

4 Cosmopolitan Ethics, Communal Reciprocity, and Global Environmentalism 69

5 Toward a Global Consensus on Environmental Human Rights 92

6 Human Rights as Inheritance: Instituting Intergenerational Environmental Justice 117

7 Conclusion: Environmental Justice and the Emergent Future of Human Rights 143

References 153

Index 161