The legalization of the human right to a healthy environment


Abstract in English

The constitutions of many countries of the world until recently included traditional rights and freedoms, without paying attention to the emergence of new rights imposed by human activities in his life, the most important right to the environment, the right to the environment was not among the constitutional rights mentioned, Its domestic legislation on the occasion of its application to the laws of environmental protection, but with the international and regional attention to the right to the environment, many constitutions of comparative countries have recently moved to recognize the principle of the right of the individual in an appropriate environment.

References used

(D,Richard Boyd, The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions, .Human Rights, and the Environment (Vancouver, Toronto, UBC Press, 2012
الدستور السوري الصادر بالمرسوم التشريعي رقم 94 لعام 2012
Dr. Riad Saleh Abu Al-Atta, Environmental Protection from the Perspective of Public International Law, New University House, Egypt, 2009

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