TY - JOUR
T1 - Connecting ecosystem services research and human rights to revamp the application of the precautionary principle
AU - Niner, Holly J.
AU - Morgera, Elisa
AU - Longo, Andrea
AU - Howell, Kerry L.
AU - Rees, Siân E.
PY - 2024/7/24
Y1 - 2024/7/24
N2 - With ecosystem services (ES) vital for human wellbeing1, the protection of nature is a human rights matter. We outline how recent advances in international human rights law should inform a revamp of how precaution is applied within environmental decision-making. Critically, precautionary decision-making must evolve to make use of best-available evidence, including novel ES research approaches, to assess ‘foreseeable’ harms to all aspects of human wellbeing that are protected as human rights.
AB - With ecosystem services (ES) vital for human wellbeing1, the protection of nature is a human rights matter. We outline how recent advances in international human rights law should inform a revamp of how precaution is applied within environmental decision-making. Critically, precautionary decision-making must evolve to make use of best-available evidence, including novel ES research approaches, to assess ‘foreseeable’ harms to all aspects of human wellbeing that are protected as human rights.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85206810792
UR - https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/bms-research/1688
U2 - 10.1038/s44183-024-00072-8
DO - 10.1038/s44183-024-00072-8
M3 - Article
SN - 2731-426X
VL - 3
JO - npj Ocean Sustainability
JF - npj Ocean Sustainability
IS - 1
M1 - 35
ER -
