1st Edition
The Global Emergence of Constitutional Environmental Rights
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 Constitutions, human rights, and the environment
2 National constitutions in world society
3 The global expansion of environmental rights
4 The experiences of Nepal and Sri Lanka
5 Constitutions for a greener future?
Appendix: Technical discussion of qualitative research methodology
Index
Biography
Joshua C. Gellers is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Florida and Fulbright Scholar to Sri Lanka. His work focuses on environmental rights and sustainable development. His articles have appeared in International Environmental Agreements, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, and Transnational Environmental Law.
In his superbly-written new book, Professor Josh Gellers offers us an exciting, radically different and ground-breaking transdisciplinary perspective on the emergence of constitutional environmental rights through an innovative application of social science methods and empirical inquiries. As a leading political scientist and legal scholar, Professor Gellers is perfectly placed to pry open restrictive methodological approaches, providing as he does, fresh insights for lawyers to appreciate why countries actually adopt constitutional environmental rights.
Professor Louis J. Kotzé
Research Professor, North-West University, South Africa
In this exciting comparative environmental travelogue, Gellers maintains with wealth of impressive empirical evidence that international environmental norms make and mould ‘state identities’ and shape the design of national constitutions. All those especially interested in green governance and Anthropocene justice should find this rich work very rewarding.
Upendra Baxi
Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Warwick and Delhi
The author’s novel interdisciplinary analytical device called "a world cultural framework of constitutional environmental rights" incorporating theories from international relations, sociology and law, seeks to improve our understanding of the emergence of environmental rights. He does so by skillfully drawing upon quantitative and qualitative analyses involving Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Sumudu Atapattu
Director of Research Centers at University of Wisconsin Law School
