Abstract

This introductory chapter serves to highlight the progressive shift in international law as to environmentEnvironment, intended as the physical surroundings in which humans exist, from an object (value, interest and competence) to be protected, preserved in international environmental law and international human rights law and practice as well as even improved (at the EU level) in its natural dimension and utilitarian character—also in its temporal representation transcending generations and individual human lives to signify the perpetuation of the human species amid all number of environmental temporalities. This shift in fact has operated towards an environmental right(s)-based approach which has recognizedEnvironment environment-related rightsEnvironmental-related rights in international human rights, more recently expanded to a right to healthyHealthy environment environmentEnvironment, though only by the Human Rights CouncilHuman Rights Council and at some regional level but with still some difficulties at the European one. Building upon these premises, the chapter highlights the links between a safe and healthy environmentEnvironment on the one hand and children’sChild(ren) rights on the other evoked with increasing insistence both by childrenChild(ren) and international bodies, but so far failed to be comprehensively considered by legal scholars; and purports to fill that gap in the existing literature by considering the contribution a group-specificGroup-specific perspective can make to the fruitful developmentDevelopment of children’sChild(ren) environmental rights.

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