Right to Environment and Right of Environment- A Critique

Abstract

The concept of right to environment and right of environment are the two environmental ethics that have been conceptualized in the environmental law discourse. The former concept is based upon an anthropocentric notion wherein human rights are given the preferential value in protecting the environment whereas the latter ethics is based upon the recognition of the rights of the environment as a whole wherein the environment is the central subject of protection. The object of the work is therefore to analyze the two ethics and how far they hold good in the environmental law regime. A critical study is to be made on both the ethics and thereafter it is to be derived which notion stands good in achieving our object of protection of environment.