1. Human Rights Approaches to Environmental Protection: An Overview; INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS; 2. Environmental Protection and Human Rights: Conceptual Aspects; 3. The Role of International Human Rights Law and the Protection of the Environment; 4. Life, The Universe and Everything: A Critique of Anthropocentric Rights; 5. Environmental Rights in Existing Human Rights Treaties; 6. Environmental Rights in the European Union: Participatory Democracy or Democratic Deficit; 7. Access to Environmental Justice and Procedural Rights in International Institutions; NATIONAL CASE STUDIES; 8. Social Justice and the Judicial Enforcement of Environmental Rights and Duties; 9. Environmental Rights and the New South African Constitution; 10. Individual Rights to Environmental Protection in India; 11. Practical Human Rights, NGOs and the Environment in Malaysia; 12. Indiginous peoples, Environmental Degradation and Human Rights: A Case Study; 13. Constitutional Environmental Rights in Brazil; 14. Islam and Judicial Activism: Public Address Litigation under Environmental Protection in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan