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Protection Of Environmental Rights For Sustainable Development: An Appraisal Of International And National Laws, Abdulkadir Bolaji Abdulkadir

Abdulkadir Bolaji Abdulkadir

There is a close nexus between sustainable management, use and utilization of the environment and safeguard of environmental rights. Both are equally important for the wellbeing of the human kind, but this warrants striking a balance between them. It is for this reason that law has to provide for abatement and control of degradation of the environment and protection of environmental rights. At international level, early human rights instruments made no direct mention of protection of environmental rights, but they, in effect, safeguard them. The later ones have direct mention about protecting these rights. The Aarhus Convention is notable among …