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Salma Yusuf, Human Rights and The Environment – A View from the European Court of Human Rights

TITLE OF ESSAY : HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT – A VIEW FROM THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AUTHOR OF ESSAY: SALMA YUSUF BASED ON A PAPER PUBLISHED AT UNITED KINGDOM ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The paper is set within the context of the emerging discourse on environmental security and sustainable development. It seeks to inject a new paradigm into the discourse by demonstrating how a human rights based approach could aid the advancement of the agenda of environmental security and protection, while at the same time generating the impetus for international human rights law to widen its…