This series delves into the governance of complex socio-ecological systems, presenting concise yet authoritative studies from world-leading scholars. It adopts a highly interdisciplinary approach, examining governance processes and institutions at all decision-making levels, from local to global scales. The aim is to align current institutions and governance systems with the environmental challenges and transformations of the 21st century, offering both cutting-edge scientific research and innovative transformative ideas.
Environmental rights are a category of human rights necessarily central to both democracy and effective earth system governance. We analyze how human rights are made democratically and, in particular, how they can be made with respect to environmental matters, especially those that have import beyond the confines of the modern nation state.