Children's Environmental Rights Under International and EU Law: The Changing Face of Fundamental Rights in Pursuit of Ecocentrism

This book is dedicated to a topic which has for a long time lacked the attention it deserves within the academic world. It intends to address in a coherent and comprehensive manner the problem of the environmental rights of the child, which are not identical to the ones of adults whose environmental rights have been appraised from a general point of view.

In the absence of any international law instrument explicitly granting a child the right to a clean environment, drawing on an extensive...