Children and the Environment : Pathways to Legal Protection |
Autore | Papantoniou Angeliki |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
Disciplina | 346.01/3083 |
Collana | Queen Mary Studies in International Law |
Soggetto topico |
Children and the environment
Children - Legal status, laws, etc Children - Effect of environment on Children (International law) Environmentally induced diseases in children |
ISBN | 9789004530089 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Children's Particular Vulnerability to Environmental Threats -- 2 Known and Emerging Environmental Threats to Children's Health -- 2.1 Traditional Environmental Threats -- 2.2 Emerging Threats -- 2.3 Poverty -- 2.4 Overlapping Environmental Threats -- 3 The Response of Science -- 4 The Response of International Organisations and Institutions -- 5 Binding Obligations in International Law -- 6 Book's Scope and Limitations -- Part 1 Vulnerability -- Chapter 1 Children's Universal Vulnerability against Environmental Degradation: Prioritising Children's Needs in Environmental Related Policy and Law -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Going beyond a Uniform Definition of Vulnerability in International Law -- 2 Vulnerability in Legal Theory -- 2.1 Martha Albertson Fineman's Universal Vulnerability Theory -- 2.1.1 Critique on Equality Theory -- 2.1.2 Moving from the Autonomous Liberal Subject to Universal Vulnerability -- 2.1.3 The Paradox of Vulnerability: Capturing Both Universality and Particularity -- 2.2 Vulnerability and the Justification for Children's Rights -- 2.3 Ontological Vulnerability-Linking Human Rights and the Environment -- 2.3.1 Turner's Theory of Vulnerability -- 2.3.2 Human Rights and the Environment -- 2.4 Conclusions from Theory -- 3 Vulnerability in Climate Change Adaptation, the Inevitable Factor -- 3.1 Children -- 4 Vulnerability in Natural Disasters and Poverty -- 5 Endorsing Children's Universal Vulnerability against Environmental Threats: The Underlying Condition for Pathways to Protection -- Chapter 2 Affirming Children's Universal Vulnerability in Environmental Matters, the Paradigm of Youth Climate Change Action -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Intergenerational Equity and Climate Change Litigation-Preliminary Remarks.
3 Intergenerational Equity and Children's Rights in Climate Change National Case-Law -- 4 Equality and Vulnerability: Putting Children's Claims at the Heart of Climate Change Policy and Law -- 5 United Nations and Children in Climate Change Negotiations -- 6 Pathways to Legal Protection, Climate Change Youth Action -- Part 2 Rights -- Chapter 3 Children's Rights and the Environment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Children's Rights and the Environment -- 2.1 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 2.2 Business and Children's Rights -- 3 Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction -- 3.1 The Advisory Opinion on Human Rights and the Environment -- 3.2 The EU Draft Directive on Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence -- 4 Towards the Recognition of a Right to Healthy Environment in International Law -- 4.1 Global Recognition of a Right to a Healthy Environment -- 4.1.1 The Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court, Making the Right Justiciable -- 5 The Right of the Child to Participate in Environmental Matters -- 5.1 uncrc Article 12 -- 5.2 Procedural Environmental Rights -- 5.2.1 The Three Pillars of Procedural Environmental Rights -- 5.2.2 The Aarhus Convention -- 5.2.3 The Escazú Agreement -- 5.2.4 Procedural Environmental Rights in the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- 6 Pathways to Children' Protection, Children's Rights and the Environment -- Chapter 4 The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health of the Child -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Why Start with the Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health -- 3 The Right to Health in International Law, Scope and Application to Environmental Degradation -- 4 The Definition of Health -- 5 Applicable Principles and Standards for the Realisation of the Child's Right to Health under the uncrc. 6 The Criteria of Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Quality -- 7 The Obligation to Protect, Respect and Fulfil -- 8 The 'Action Cycle' for the Realisation of the Right -- 9 Building Capacities for the Realisation of the Right to Health of the Child in Environmental Matters -- 10 Pathways to Children's Protection, Right to Health -- Part 3 European Union -- The EU's Commitment to Protect Children's Environmental Health -- 1 The EU's Commitment to Protecting Children's Rights and Environmental Health -- 2 Charter on the Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union -- Chapter 5 Chemicals -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reach -- 2.1 General Considerations -- 2.2 Reach Procedure: Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation -- 2.3 The Role of Information in reach -- 2.4 Evaluation of reach in Addressing Children's Particular Vulnerability to Chemicals -- 3 The Regulation of Pesticides and Biocides in the EU -- 3.1 Pesticides -- 3.2 Biocides -- 3.3 Evaluation of Pesticides and Biocides Regulations -- 4 Toys and Other Consumer Products -- 5 Overall Evaluation -- 6 Pathways to Children's Protection, Chemicals -- Chapter 6 Clean Air -- 1 Air Quality Directive -- 2 Industrial Emissions -- 3 Overall Evaluation -- 4 Pathways to Children's Protection Clean Air -- Chapter 7 Waste Management -- 1 EU Waste Framework Directive -- 1.1 Definition of 'Waste' -- 1.2 Hazardous Waste -- 1.3 Waste Hierarchy -- 1.4 Waste Management and Its Costs -- 1.5 Waste Management Plans -- 1.6 fwd Protecting Children's Health -- 2 Shipment of Waste -- 3 Ship Recycling -- 4 Landfills -- 4.1 'Landfill' -- 4.2 National Strategy -- 5 Pathways to Children's Protection, Waste Management -- Chapter 8 Environmental Assessments: Environmental Impact Assessment and Strategic Environmental Assessment -- 1 Introduction. 2 Brief Description of Environmental Assessments -- 2.1 Environmental Impact Assessment -- 2.2 Strategic Environmental Assessment -- 2.3 Environmental Assessments' Structure -- 3 The Environmental Impact Assessment Directive -- 3.1 Directive's Provisions -- 3.1.1 Evaluation -- 3.2 Protection of Children's Health -- 3.3 Overall Evaluation -- 4 The Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive -- 4.1 Directive's Provisions -- 4.1.1 Overall Evaluation -- 5 The Human Rights Critique on the eia and sea Processes -- 6 Pathways to Children's Protection, Environmental Assessments -- Children and the Environment, Pathways to Legal Protection: Conclusion Parts i, ii and iii -- Bibliography -- Books and Articles -- Treaties -- International -- European Union -- List of Cases -- International Court of Justice -- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea -- European Court of Human Rights (Cases and Other Materials) -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- Court of Justice of the European Union -- Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee -- National Courts -- European Union -- Newspaper Articles -- Webpages -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910915692003321 |
Papantoniou Angeliki | ||
Boston : , : BRILL, , 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in school buildings : sources, environmental levels, and exposures / / Kent Thomas [and four others.] |
Autore | Thomas Kent |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, DC] : , : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (150 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Polychlorinated biphenyls - Environmental aspects
School buildings - Environmental aspects Children - Effect of environment on |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Polychlorinated biphenyls |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910703930703321 |
Thomas Kent | ||
[Washington, DC] : , : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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