What is it about?
The environmental and human rights movements have valuable contributions to make to each other. Environmentalists can contribute to the greening of human rights by getting the human rights movement to recognize a right to a safe environment, to see humans as part of nature, and to begin considering the idea that nature may have claims of its own. The human rights movement can contribute to environmentalism by getting environmentalists to recognize that they have strong reasons to support rights to political participation, freedom from violence, due process of law, education, and adequate nutrition.
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Why is it important?
To understand the valuable contributions between environmental and human rights movements.
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Because there are many significant similarities between the environmental and human rights movements, cooperation between them has already occurred in many countries and there are important connections between their agendas.
Professor Eduardo Viola
University of Brasilia
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This page is a summary of: Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights, Environmental Ethics, January 1994, Philosophy Documentation Center,
DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics199416316.
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