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Environment and Human Rights

Wolfgang Sachs argues for environmental human rights as a fundamental prerequisite to end the violence of development. He outlines the numerous conflicts over naturalresources in the struggle for livelihoods and argues for a transition to sustainability in the more affluent economies, in both the No...

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Main Author: WOLFGANG SACHS
Format: Printed Book
Published: Development, 2004, 47(1), (42-49) 2004
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Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/004008.pdf
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Summary:Wolfgang Sachs argues for environmental human rights as a fundamental prerequisite to end the violence of development. He outlines the numerous conflicts over naturalresources in the struggle for livelihoods and argues for a transition to sustainability in the more affluent economies, in both the North and South, as a necessary condition for the safeguarding of the subsistence rights of those whose livelihood depends on direct access to nature.