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The Right to a Healthy Environment

Revitalizing Canada's Constitution

by (author) David R. Boyd

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2012
Category
Environmental, Environmental Policy, Constitutions
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774824125
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $85.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774824132
    Publish Date
    Dec 2012
    List Price
    $29.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774824156
    Publish Date
    Oct 2012
    List Price
    $29.95

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Description

Canada has abundant natural wealth, beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the industrialized world’s worst environmental records. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada’s green record. This important and provocative book provides a road map to protect human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.

About the author

Dr. David R. Boyd is one of Canada’s leading experts in environmental law and policy and an adjunct professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. He has advised the governments of Canada, Sweden, and Iceland on environmental and constitutional issues and is the co-chair of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team along with Mayor Gregor Robertson. He is a member of the IUCN’s Commission on Environmental Law, the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment, the Forum for Leadership on Water, and the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).

David Boyd is the author of several bestselling and award-winning books as well as more than a hundred publications related to environmental law and policy, including Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy and The Right to a Healthy Environment: Revitalizing Canada's Constitution. His current research focuses on the effects of enshrining environmental rights and responsibilities in national constitutions.

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Editorial Reviews

The Right to a Healthy Environment is a comprehensive, meticulously researched and brilliantly organized analysis that will strengthen scholars, politicians, and activists alike. It is a clarion call to action in a war against our most terrible enemies, our own lethargy, short-sightedness, and complicity in the destruction of the nature we profess to revere.

International Journal of Environmental Studies, June 2013