Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- 2 The Indivisibility of Human Dignity and Sustainability
- 3 Environmental Justice in the Global South
- 4 Indigenous Environmental Justice and Sustainability
- 5 Racial Capitalism and the Anthropocene
- 6 Human Rights and Socioecological Justice through a Vulnerability Lens
- 7 Social–Ecological Resilience and Its Relation to the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development
- 8 Environmental Justice and Sustainability
- Part II Case Studies
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
6 - Human Rights and Socioecological Justice through a Vulnerability Lens
from Part I - Frameworks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword (on Living in an Interregnum)
- 1 Intersections of Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- Part I Frameworks
- 2 The Indivisibility of Human Dignity and Sustainability
- 3 Environmental Justice in the Global South
- 4 Indigenous Environmental Justice and Sustainability
- 5 Racial Capitalism and the Anthropocene
- 6 Human Rights and Socioecological Justice through a Vulnerability Lens
- 7 Social–Ecological Resilience and Its Relation to the Social Pillar of Sustainable Development
- 8 Environmental Justice and Sustainability
- Part II Case Studies
- Part III Conclusion
- Index
Summary
I suggest here, as I have done elsewhere, that our legal institutions have been complicit in causing the Anthropocene, while they are unable to address the multiple inter and intraspecies injustices that arise as a result of the decay of earth system integrity.1 Human rights cannot convincingly stand insulated from the criticism leveled at law more generally.2 Indeed, uncritical reliance upon the human rights paradigm as a central strategy to achieve the objectives of the social pillar of sustainable development, or, in more contemporary terms, of socioecological justice,3 has failed to meaningfully address in any comprehensive way, the plights of billions of oppressed human and nonhuman beings, despite many human rights “victories.”4
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