Human rights and the environment are intertwined and interdependent. As Ken Siro-Wiwa declared, ‘[t]he environment is man’s first right. Without a clean environment, man cannot exist to claim other rights, be they political, social, or economic’. However, the application of the human rights framework to protect the environment is never straightforward. James May and Erin Daly’s edited collection, Human Rights and the Environment: Legality, Indivisibility, Dignity andGeography, offers an authoritative guide to the complex relationship between human rights and the environment. The book features several contributions from a diverse group of experts in international law, human rights law, environmental constitutionalism, and environmental law, among other specializations. Thanks to these contributions,Human Rights and the Environment provides an excellent compilation of human rights and the environment scholarship. The book is organized around four overarching themes: legality, indivisibility, dignity, and geography. The first three establish the legal frameworks for integrating human rights and the environment (‘legality’), make the case that human rights and the environment are inseparable (‘indivisibility’), and demonstrate that environmental protection is essential for the preservation of human dignity, a foundational component of human rights (‘dignity’). The last theme, ‘geography’, offers place-based examples of how human rights and the environment intersect. While this thematic separation is at times a useful way of organizing the book’s 44 chapters, the divisions between the themes are not always clear-cut and some of the ideas within the chapters seem redundant. Even so, the book provides a thorough and thoughtful examination of human rights and the environment.

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人权与环境：合法性、不可分割性、尊严和地理，James R. May 和 Erin Daly Edward Elgar 编辑，2019 年，616 页，215 英镑，172 英镑 ebk ISBN 9781788111454 hb，9781788111461 ebk

人权与环境相互交织、相互依存。正如 Ken Siro-Wiwa 所说，“环境是人的第一权利。没有一个清洁的环境，人就不能存在以主张其他权利，无论是政治的、社会的还是经济的”。然而，将人权框架应用于保护环境从来都不是直截了当的。James May 和 Erin Daly 编辑的合集《人权与环境：合法性、不可分割性、尊严与地理》为人权与环境之间的复杂关系提供了权威指南。这本书收录了来自国际法、人权法、环境宪政主义和环境法以及其他专业领域的不同专家组的若干贡献。由于这些贡献，人权与环境提供了人权与环境学术的优秀汇编。这本书围绕四个首要主题进行组织：合法性、不可分割性、尊严和地理。前三项确立了人权与环境相结合的法律框架（“合法性”），论证了人权与环境不可分割（“不可分割”），并表明环境保护对于维护人类尊严至关重要，人权的基本组成部分（“尊严”）。最后一个主题，“地理”，提供了人权与环境如何相交的基于地点的例子。虽然这种主题分离有时是组织本书 44 章的有用方式，主题之间的划分并不总是很明确，章节中的一些想法似乎是多余的。尽管如此，这本书还是对人权和环境进行了彻底而深思熟虑的考察。