Since their emergence in the 1970s, human rights relating to environmental protection have spread all over the world and continue to find homes in an ever-growing list of national constitutions. These provisions mainly fall into one of three categories – substantive, procedural, or derivative environmental rights. Over the last two decades, the proliferation of these rights has caught the attention of legal scholars and social scientists, who have sought to catalogue their distribution and analyze the origins and impacts of this development. The literature in this area has provided anecdotal updates concerning environmental rights jurisprudence at the national and regional levels and global quantitative assessments regarding the effects that such rights have on humans and the environment. However, scant work offers regionally-focused empirical examinations of the variation of the presence and impacts of environmental rights. In an effort toward filling this gap, this article utilizes statistical techniques in order to determine what, if any, correlation exists between environmental rights and environmental performance in the Asia Pacific region. Preliminary results suggest that, over the past several years, countries with environmental rights have experienced strong improvements in ecosystem vitality but weak reductions in measures of environmental health. In addition, there is evidence of important intra-regional differences – South and South-West Asia lay claim to some of the world's most innovative environmental rights jurisprudence, while North and Central Asia possess the region's greatest concentration of constitutions featuring environmental rights. The article concludes with several recommendations for policy-makers in the region regarding the adoption and implementation of environmental rights.

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亚太地区的环境权利：盘点和评估影响

自 1970 年代出现以来，与环境保护有关的人权已遍布世界各地，并继续在不断增长的国家宪法清单中找到归属。这些规定主要属于以下三类之一——实质性的、程序性的或派生的环境权利。在过去的二十年里，这些权利的扩散引起了法律学者和社会科学家的注意，他们试图对这些权利的分布进行分类，并分析这种发展的起源和影响。该领域的文献提供了有关国家和地区层面环境权利法理学的轶事更新，以及有关此类权利对人类和环境影响的全球定量评估。然而，很少有工作对环境权利的存在和影响的变化进行以区域为中心的实证检验。为了填补这一空白，本文利用统计技术来确定亚太地区的环境权利和环境绩效之间存在什么相关性（如果有的话）。初步结果表明，在过去的几年里，拥有环境权利的国家的生态系统活力得到了显着改善，但环境健康指标的下降幅度很小。此外，有证据表明存在重要的区域内差异——南亚和西南亚声称拥有世界上一些最具创新性的环境权利判例，而北亚和中亚则拥有该地区。以环境权利为特色的宪法最集中。文章最后向该地区的政策制定者提出了一些关于采纳和实施环境权利的建议。