Developing substantive environmental rights

Voluntary Agreements to Improve Environmental Quality: Symbolic and Substantive Cooperation

Within the context of environmental voluntary agreements (VAs), this paper analyzes the determinants of the degree of participation by firms in collective corporate political strategies that aim to shape government policy. We demonstrate that substantive cooperative strategies are more likely to be pursued by firms that enter a VA close to its initiation, while symbolic cooperation is more like...

Investigation of environmental water rights of Amirkalayeh wetland

Determination of environmental water rights of Amirkalayeh wetland is one of goals for improving of water quality environmental protection and ecosystem restoration dependent on it. This tends to preserve the natural environment and biological values ​​of wetlands. Amirkalayeh wetland is one of important international wetlands recorded in the International Convention for the Protection of Wetla...

Patients’ Awareness of Their Rights: Insight from a Developing Country

Background Considering the effect of human right observance on patients’ satisfaction from the treatment process, in Iran the Patient Rights Charter (PRC) was developed by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MOHME) in 2001 and enforced to all hospitals across the country. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate patients’ awareness of their rights based on PRC in two tertiary ...

Is state power to protect health compatible with substantive due process rights?

Public health laws may mandate drastic limitations on individual liberty, such as forced medication and quarantine. This results in a tension between public health laws and guarantees of liberty such as the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court has resolved this tension in favor of one or the other of these legal principl...

Environmental Protection, Public Health and Human Rights