This open access book explores the highly topical issue of environmental rights through national, European and international perspectives.

The growing awareness of an impending environmental crisis coupled with a series of national and regional environmental disasters led, in the 1960s and 1970s, to the birth of the global environmental movement and the widespread recognition of the need to protect the environment for both current and future generations. Against this backdrop the concept of 'environmental rights' surfaced as a means by which claims relating to the environment could be formulated in legal terms and thereby safeguarded. In the decades that followed, this concept has come to encompass many different variations of legal rights, which this book seeks to investigate and assess.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swedish Studies Network.

Sanja Bogojevic is Associate Professor of Law at Lady Margaret Hall and the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

Rosemary Rayfuse is Scientia Professor of Law at UNSW and Conjoint Professor, Faculty of Law, Lund University.