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Environmental Rights

Environmental Rights is a legal and ethical principle denoting the fundamental entitlement of individuals and communities to a healthy, sustainable, and ecologically balanced environment, encompassing the duties of states and institutions to protect environmental integrity in accordance with principles of justice, intergenerational equity, and the rights of nature, particularly as informed by comparative environmental law, environmental philosophy, and Indigenous Peoples' Rights.

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Environmental Justice

Paul Mohai, David N. Pellow, J. Timmons Roberts · Annual Review of Environment and Resources · 2009 · 1.4K citations

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Theorising environmental justice: the expanding sphere of a discourse

David Schlosberg · Environmental Politics · 2013 · 1.1K citations

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Who Sustains Whose Development? Sustainable Development and the Reinvention of Nature

Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee · Organization Studies · 2003 · 773 citations

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Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects

Christopher D. Stone · Stanford Law Review · 1974 · 654 citations

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The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics

Kenneth A. Erickson, Roderick Nash · Geographical Review · 1990 · 580 citations

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  1. LJ
    Louis J. Kotzé

    North-West University, South Africa

    7 publications · 414 citations

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  2. RD
    Robert D. Bullard

    Texas Southern University, United States

    7 publications · 1.8K citations

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  3. EM
    Elisa Morgera

    University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 233 citations

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  4. JH
    John H. Knox

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 386 citations

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  5. AS
    Annalisa Savaresi

    University of Stirling, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 116 citations

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Institutions

588

  1. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    10 h-index

    10 publications

    824 citations

  2. North-West University

    Potchefstroom, South Africa

    10 h-index

    12 publications

    743 citations

  3. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    375 citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    205 citations

  5. University of Strathclyde

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    6 publications

    225 citations

  6. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

    Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

    6 h-index

    18 publications

    2K citations

  7. University of Stirling

    Stirling, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    5 publications

    101 citations

  8. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    6 h-index

    4 publications

    216 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 42 publications · 4.4K citations

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  2. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 40 publications · 1.3K citations

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  3. Environmental Ethics

    26 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. Journal of Environmental Law

    23 publications · 672 citations

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