The impact of environmental damage on human rights - whether civil and political rights or welfare and labor rights - is becoming ever more widely appreciated. It has direct and important bearing on the behavior of companies, especially transnationals, governments and other organizations. Out of the conflicts are emerging new norms of conduct.The contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the issues and show how new standards that protect rights and liberties can be established. An original and groundbreaking volume.Contributors include D Brown; P Girot; P Hirsch; F MacKay; V Mischenko; J Mugabe; E Rosenthal; A Sari; R Thornton; G Tumushabe; S Wang; C Wu.