EU environmental law, international environmental law, and human rights law: the case of environmental responsibility

In: International environmental law volume 11

Abstract

Introduction, methodology, terminology, basic concepts and tensions -- International environmental law and human rights partially conflict but mainly confirm the anthropocentric conceptions of the directives -- Conflict with human rights : deference to the international civil liability frameworks that applies to oil spills in directive 2004/35 -- Human rights and procedural limitations in the directoves : complement and conflict -- Conclusions