The Right to a Healthy Environment
Book Lecture by Daniel Magraw
The universal recognition of the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is now recognized as
essential to the realization of a vast array of human rights. This right is the essence of environmental justice and provides a
framework for analyzing and responding to the immediate and long-term threats posed by climate change.
Dan Magraw is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He teaches at SAIS and the University of Miami School of Law. He is President Emeritus of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).
The Right to a Healthy Environment, the Rights of Future Generations, and Climate Change, Daniel Magraw & Miriam Siemes, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 47:1 Winter 2023.
