RESEARCH
POPULATION AND GLOBAL HEALTH
Planetary Health
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- Journal Article
- 2023
An emergent planetary health law
by Eric C. Ip
in International & Comparative Law Quarterly
The health of the planet and its life forms are under threat from anthropogenic climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss, and the extreme weather events, heatwaves and wildfires that accompany them. The burgeoning field of planetary health studies the interplay between humanity and the Earth’s biosphere and ecosystems on which human health depends. Scholarship on law from a planetary health vantage point remains scarce. This article fills this gap by delineating the conceptual building blocks of a planetary health law, which, in its latent form, is dispersed across various hard and soft sources of international environmental law and global health law that converge on the right to a healthy environment, and, to a lesser extent, rights of nature emerging in various domestic jurisdictions. It elucidates how the fragmented regimes of international environmental and global health law could be developed in more coherent ways, driven by an overarching concern for the integrity of the planetary foundations of life.
Planetary health is a nascent field of scientific research that is related to but different from global health. It recognises that human health is critically shaped by the biophysical and ecological systems of the planet Earth, which in turn are influenced by human activities in ways too important to be neglected during the present Anthropocene epoch. CMEL’s research in this emerging area seeks to understand and reform the legal structures within which human impacts on the natural systems of our planet affect human health and civilisation. Additionally, we seek to chart the human rights implications of legal responses to planetary events like global climate change, zoonotic diseases, transborder fire emissions, and so on.
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- Journal Article
- 2024
Digital planetary health needs ethical guidance
by Eric C. Ip
in The Lancet Planetary Health
- Journal Article
- 2024
Championing planetary health: cancer nurses paving the path to a vibrant future
by Eric C. Ip
in Cancer Nursing: An International Journal for Cancer Care Research
- Journal Article
- 2023
From the right to a healthy planet to the planetary right to health
by Eric C. Ip
in The Lancet Planetary Health
- Journal Article
- 2023
Harnessing legal structures of virtue for planetary health
by Eric C. Ip
in Journal of Medical Ethics
- Journal Article
- 2022
Mapping the legal foundations of planetary mental health
by Daisy Cheung & Eric C. Ip
in Global Mental Health
- Journal Article
- 2021
The constitutional determinants of planetary health
by Eric C. Ip
in The Lancet Planetary Health