Mesa Cuadros, Gregorio --- "Environmental rights, responsibility and care: a new constitutional paradigm" [2019] ELECD 2848; in Jaria-Manzano, Jordi; Borras , Susana (eds), "Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 176

Book Title: Research Handbook on Global Climate Constitutionalism

Editor(s): Jaria-Manzano, Jordi; Borrás , Susana

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Environmental rights, responsibility and care: a new constitutional paradigm

Author(s): Mesa Cuadros, Gregorio

Number of pages: 19

Abstract/Description:

The misuse of the environment by a small part of the human population has generated grave problems and conflicts over the centuries. In recent decades, its consequences have begun to affect all of humanity, ecosystems and the entire planet. To address the unfettered appropriation of nature, from a legal-political point of view, an integral perspective of rights is emerging, indicating the need for concrete environmental limits to the behaviour of humans, states and companies. A theory of environmental rights based on care, duties and responsibility for all present and future human beings and ecosystems, as well as waters, forests and other natural and cultural commons, could help to address the current protection deficit of nature and human communities.