Human Rights and the Environment: in Search of a New Relationship: Editor’s Introduction

<p>The 2012 Onati Workshop, &lsquo;Human Rights and the Environment: In Search of a New Relationship&rsquo;, began to trace outa new, imaginative and paradigm-challenging framework calling on philosophy, legal doctrine, policy, praxis and activism and drawing them together in a coheren...

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Main Author: Anna Grear
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-12-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Law
Online Access:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2247824
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Summary:<p>The 2012 Onati Workshop, &lsquo;Human Rights and the Environment: In Search of a New Relationship&rsquo;, began to trace outa new, imaginative and paradigm-challenging framework calling on philosophy, legal doctrine, policy, praxis and activism and drawing them together in a coherent, but non-monolithic new socio-juridical approach to the important relationship between human rights and the environment. The workshop was part of the on-going work of the Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and Environment (GNHRE) &ndash; the largest existing network of scholars in the world specifically addressing the important nexus between human rights as the dominant global language of ethical claim and the &lsquo;environment&rsquo;. In short, the GNHRE workshop at Onati developed the on-going efforts of the GNHRE network and its partners to contribute to the important task of re-imagining the human relationship with the living world. We were incredibly fortunate to be awarded an International Workshop by the Onati Institute for the Sociology of Law &ndash; and the papers in this collection were, in the main, presented as part of the workshop. The others (by Grear; and by Morrow, Kotze and Grant) were written later, in the light of the conversations and notes taken at the Workshop, and representa weaving together of insights and provocations emerging from the rich discussions taking place in June 2012 in Onati, Spain.</p> <hr /><p>El seminario &lsquo;Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente: En busca de una nueva relaci&oacute;n&rsquo;, celebrado en O&ntilde;ati en 2012, comenz&oacute; a trazar un marco nuevo e imaginativo, desafiando paradigmas, y apelando a la filosof&iacute;a, la doctrina jur&iacute;dica, la pol&iacute;tica, la praxis y el activismo, que elaboren juntos un nuevo enfoque socio-jur&iacute;dico coherente, no monol&iacute;tico, sobre la importante relaci&oacute;n entre los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. El taller fue parte de la labor puesta en marcha por la Red Mundial para el Estudio de los Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente (GNHRE) - la mayor red existente de acad&eacute;micos especializados en el importante nexo que existe entre los derechos humanos como lengua global dominante de reclamaci&oacute;n &eacute;tica y el &lsquo;medio ambiente&rsquo;. En resumen, el seminario de O&ntilde;ati desarroll&oacute; los esfuerzos en curso de la red GNHRE y sus socios, para contribuir a la importante tarea de re-imaginar la relaci&oacute;n humana con el mundo viviente. Fuimos incre&iacute;blemente afortunados al conced&eacute;rsenos un taller internacional en el Instituto de Sociolog&iacute;a Jur&iacute;dica de O&ntilde;ati y los documentos de esta colecci&oacute;n fueron presentados en su mayor&iacute;a como parte del taller. Un par (por Grear, y por Morrow, Kotze y Grant) se escribieron despu&eacute;s, a la luz de las conversaciones y notas tomadas en el taller, y representan un tejido de uni&oacute;n de ideas y provocaciones aparecidas en las ricas discusiones que tuvieron lugar en junio de 2012 en O&ntilde;ati, Espa&ntilde;a.
ISSN:2079-5971