New Publication: Right to Healthy Environment - A Political-Legal Discourse

Last updated on 16 May 2026

🌿 New Publication 🌿 Delighted to share that my book chapter 𝐔𝐧𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐄𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥-𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞: 𝐀 ‘𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧’ 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬? is now available Open Access. See —

The chapter traces a 50+ year arc from the hashtag#StockholmDeclaration (1972) to UNGA Resolution 76/300 (2022), and beyond (to the advisory opinions). It reads the United Nations Human Rights Council and United Nations General Assembly hashtag#votingpatterns through a contrapuntal, hashtag#TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law)-informed lens.

Special thanks to Dr. David R. Boyd with whom I first shared my idea for this article in 2022, and his encouragement then and throughout meant a lot. The same year, I submitted an abstract for a symposium at Melbourne Law School. I got accepted, but wasn't able to go. Later in 2023, I presented the same at British International Studies Association in Glasgow and got invited to write a guest post in Environmental Politics journal (see here). I kept refining the work for the last four years, brainstorming the concepts with many scholars and practitioners. It has been such a rewarding experience.

Truly grateful to my co-editors Richard Beardsworth and Viktoria Spaiser for the constant support throughout — for the chapter, as well as the book. What a joy to see our book 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬: 𝐀 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 go live. See the book here —

Thanks to Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and University of Leeds for making this a reality!!

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