Life Support: How the Right to a Healthy Environment Protects People and Nature

A clear, hopeful strategy for a safer, cleaner, fairer planet from a leading legal expert

Too often the well-being of humans and the planet are pitted against each other, but in this groundbreaking and inspiring book, lawyer David Boyd shows that environmental rights are an essential part of human rights. We can protect people and nature at the same time. Courts all over the world are starting to agree, setting legal precedents that can force governments to take better care of people and nat...