EU environmental law, international environmental law, and human rights law : : the case of environmental responsibility / / by Armelle Gouritin.

• VerfasserIn: Gouritin, Armelle,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: International Environmental Law 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In EU Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and Human Rights Law: The Case of Environmental Responsibility , Armelle Gouritin offers a critical appraisal of EU environmental responsibility law and asserts a new rights-based approach to international environmental law. This book addresses environmental damage, environmental harm, the grounds for environmental responsibility and the exceptions to the responsibility principle. A critical appraisal of EU Directives 2004/35 and 2008/99 is complemented by an analysis of the input of the European Court on Human Rights and international environmental law with a view to filling the gaps identified in the Directives. Gouritin offers a full analysis of the potential and limits of the rights-based approach applied to environmental responsibility.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction. Methodology, Terminology, Basic Concepts and Tensions -- 2 International Environmental Law and Human Rights Partially Conflict but Mainly Confirm the Anthropocentric Conceptions of the Directives -- 3 Conflict with Human Rights: Deference to the International Civil Liability Frameworks that Applies to Oil Spills in Directive 2004/35 -- 4 Human Rights and Procedural Limitations in the Directives: Complement and Conflict -- 5 Conclusions -- Annex—Summary of the Findings: Complement, Confirmation and Conflict -- Bibliography -- Index.