environmental rights
Ecological legal protections
Environmental rights are legal or moral entitlements to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
The concept treats access to clean air, safe water, and uncontaminated land as fundamental human rights rather than privileges.
Some constitutions and international agreements now recognize environmental rights explicitly: The court ruled that polluting the river violated citizens' environmental rights.
The term also covers the right to participate in environmental decisions and seek remedies for ecological harm.
- ecologyStudy of environmental relations
- sustainabilityCapacity to endure indefinitely
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- activismDirect effort for reform
- climatePrevailing atmospheric conditions
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environmental rightsproperty rights
Legal control over possessions
development rights · mineral rights · corporate rights · drilling rights · water rights
environmental rightsresource extraction
Obtaining substances from nature
economic exploitation · economic development · industrial development · industrial growth · ecological degradation
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