An Overview to Environmental Rights in Europe A Trend to Strengthen Common (Shared) Rights and Limit Individual Rights
Environmental Rights have to a large extent broadened the scope of environmental law in developed European countries during latest decades. A lot of European conventions, bilateral agreements and domestic environmental laws have gradually showed us a new trend, that is, to strengthen moral and spiritual oriented common (shared) rights and limit property-oriented individual rights with a series of new procedural rights as instruments.
Except for keeping individualism tradition in environmental matters, some new common-rights terms have also become legal language in Europe. These new terms have been created by scholars, UN legal documents and international law latest decades. One can see very frequently the new phrases including Future Generations’ Environmental Rights, Citizens’ Environmental Rights, People’s Rights,1 Right to a Good Environment, 2 Right to Clean Air and Water,3 Right on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making, Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, Indigenous People’s Environmental Rights, Children’s Environmental Rights, 4 Women’s Environmental Rights and so forth. In addition, scholars use Human Rights for the purpose of strengthening and interpreting common (shared) rights in environmental matters. Then the line between common ...英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】
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