Recent publications in international human rights law
| Published date | 01 December 2021 |
| DOI | 10.1177/09240519211052931 |
| Date | 01 December 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Recent publications |
Recent publications in
international human
rights law
Stoutt PJ and Omrow DA, Spheres of Transnational Ecoviolence: Environmental Crime, Human
Security, and Justice (Palgrave 2021)
This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational
environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses.TEC has become one of the great-
est threats to environmental andhuman security today, as wellas a lucrative enterprise and a mode of
life in many regions of the world. Transnational Spheres of Ecoviolence argues that we cannot ser-
iously consider stopping TEC without also promoting environmental (and climate) justice. The
spheres covered range from wildlife and plant crime to illegal fisheries to toxic waste and climate
crime. These acts of violence against the environment are both localized in terms of event and
impact, and globalized in terms of market drivers and internationalized responses. Because it is so
often intimately linked to political violence, coerced labor, economic and phys ical displacement,
and development opportunity costs, ecoviolence must be viewed primarily as a human security
issue; the fight against it must derive legitimacy from impacts on local communities, and be
twinned wth the protection of environmental activists. Reliance on the generosity of distant corpora-
tions or the effectiveness of legal structures will not be adequate; and milit arized responses may do
more harm to human security than good to nature. A transformative approach to transnational ecov-
iolence is a very complex task affected by the geopolitics of neoliberalism, authoritarian states, rebel
factions and extremists, socio-economic patterns, and many other factors. In thischallenging text, the
authors capturethis complexity in digestible form andoffer a wide-ranging discussion of commensur-
ate policy recommendations for governments and the gene ral public.
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Amato G, Barbisan B and Pinelli C, Rule of Law vs Majoritarian Democracy
(Hart publishing 2021)
What is more paradoxically democratic than a people exercising their vote against the harbingers of
the rule of law and democracy? What happens when the will of the people and the rule of law are at
odds? Some commentators note that the presence of illiberal political movements in the public
arena of many Western countries demonstrates that their democracy is so inclusive and alive that
it comprehends and countenances even undemocratic forces and political agendas. But what if,
on the contrary, these were the signs of the deconsolidation of democracy instead of its good
health? What if democratically elected regimes were to ignore constitutional principles representing
the rule of law and the limits of their power? With contributions from judges and scholars from dif-
ferent backgrounds and nationalities this book explores the framework in which this tension cur-
rently takes place in several Western countries by focusing on four key themes: - The Rule of
Recent publications
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
2021, Vol. 39(4) 335–340
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