TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking environmental protection, health, and human rights in the European Union
T2 - An argument in favour of environmental justice policy
AU - Antypas, Alexios
AU - Cahn, Claude
AU - Filcak, Richard
AU - Steger, Tamara
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - The European Union (EU) has confined its moves and plans on the front of human rights law and environmental regulation to the matter of securing standing for individuals and civil society organizations in environmental proceedings in the context of environmental protection, health and human rights although a basis exists to extend anti-discrimination law to environmental areas to date. As such, there has been a recent inquiry about the fact that environmental damage in Europe are very frequently clustered in poor and minority or other marginalized communities. The EU also faces the challenge of making a law and policy relate to the problem of race-based or class-based environmental harms. So far, environmental regulation and human rights law institutions in Europe have not yet managed to tackle the issues head on. Nevertheless, there are actions that can be done, such as the establishment of a working group on environmental justice and task it to produce a white paper on environmental racism/environmental justice matters in Europe, and amending the 6th Environmental Action Program to make explicit reference to environmental justice and set environmental justice policy objectives, among others.
AB - The European Union (EU) has confined its moves and plans on the front of human rights law and environmental regulation to the matter of securing standing for individuals and civil society organizations in environmental proceedings in the context of environmental protection, health and human rights although a basis exists to extend anti-discrimination law to environmental areas to date. As such, there has been a recent inquiry about the fact that environmental damage in Europe are very frequently clustered in poor and minority or other marginalized communities. The EU also faces the challenge of making a law and policy relate to the problem of race-based or class-based environmental harms. So far, environmental regulation and human rights law institutions in Europe have not yet managed to tackle the issues head on. Nevertheless, there are actions that can be done, such as the establishment of a working group on environmental justice and task it to produce a white paper on environmental racism/environmental justice matters in Europe, and amending the 6th Environmental Action Program to make explicit reference to environmental justice and set environmental justice policy objectives, among others.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:42949095427
SN - 1067-6058
VL - 20
SP - 8
EP - 21
JO - Environmental Law and Management
JF - Environmental Law and Management
IS - 1
ER -