PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: A SURVEY OF JUDICIAL ATTITUDE IN SELECTED JURISDICTIONS
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2020-08-13
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Department of Public and International Law, Nasarawa State University Keffi
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The protection of human rights and the environment are interrelated. This is so in view of the fact that the protection of one leads to the protection of the other. Therefore, protecting the environment is sinquanon to the realization of basic human rights. Although there may not be express provision in most national law recognizing right to environment; however courts have been able to include the right to a healthful environment in the interpretation of some basic rights. It is on this premise that this paper intends to investigate into judicial interpretation of the correlation between the protection of human rights and the environment.
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Protection, Environment, Sustainable Development, Jurisdictions.
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Professor, Faculty of Law, Nassarawa State University, Keffi, Nigeria. E-mail: jamiuaderaji@gmail.com " LLB (Unilorin), B.L (Abuja), LLM (Unilorin), PhD (HUM, Malaysia), Associate Professor, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. E-mail: barristerabaOl (a/vahoo.com *** LLB (Unilorin), B.L (Abuja), LLM (O.A.U.), FICMC, MCIArb (Uk), Lecturer, Department of Private and Public Law, Faculty of Law, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Nigeria. E-mail: abdulkareemmashood@gmail 1 See principle 1 of the Stockholm Declaration, 1972. 2 Douglass-Scott S., “Environmental Rights in the European Union: Participatory Democracy or democratic Deficit” in Alan Boyle and Anderson (ed.) Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, 109-128.