Human Rights and the Environment: Redefining Fundamental Principles?

Abstract

From a legal point of view, global governance can be seen as a search for human and environmental rights. While economic globalization necessitates new forms of international control, global governance strives for more. In a world of diluted state sovereignty and market anarchy the search is for human values on which any form of governance could be built. Are there common human values? How much commonality is necessary to nurture the idea of a just global order?