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Boyd, David. Your right to a healthy environment

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Date:

November 2012

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R16853-15-9-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 44

File no. (creator):

44

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Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings

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Item ID number:

5858705

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Boyd, David. Your right to a healthy environment
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Date(s):

November 2012

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1 video file (.mov).
1 sound file (.mp3).
1 closed caption file (.vtt).
1 textual document (.pdf).
1 folder of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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File consists of an interview with David Boyd titled "Your right to a healthy environment." The interview was conducted by Silver Donald Cameron as part of The Green Interview. File includes video of the interview, printed transcript, sound recording, and closed captioning file.

From the interview with David Boyd: "A constitutional right means that it's the highest or supreme law of the land. It enjoys the highest level of legal protection possible in these legal systems. And it's also something deeper and more profound. It's a reflection of society's most cherished and deeply held values, so it reflects a real emergence of consciousness over the past four decades.[...] Well, it's been a core concept in many indigenous legal systems for millennia, so whether it's the Haida on Canada's west coast or the Mi'kmaq on Canada's east coast, environmental rights and responsibilities are a cornerstone of traditional Indigenous legal systems. But in the Western world, it's a concept that really only came to light 50 years ago when Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring and talked about everyone's right to live in an environment free from chemical poisons."

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MSS2736

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From The Green Interview website: "Topic: Green rights; Law and lawyers."

From The Green Interview website: Dr. David Boyd, activist, legal scholar, author of the magisterial The Environmental Rights Revolution, which assesses the impact of environmental rights in the 177 nations that recognize them and the 16 that do not.

David R. Boyd is a Canadian ecological lawyer and leading environmental expert who is a forceful advocate for the entrenchment of environmental rights in national legal systems. Citing examples from 95 nations, Boyd argues that enshrining the right to a healthy environment in national constitutions can dramatically transform countries' environmental laws and policies and improve their practices of protecting the environment. Yet a handful of nations, including Canada and the U.S., have no such constitutional protections. Boyd aims to change that.

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For audio-visual recordings of this interview, see IDCISN 607657, 608976.

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Moving images (video): electronic

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Textual records: electronic

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Electronic container [R16853] R16853-15-9

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Sound recordings : electronic

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Textual records

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Volume [R16853]

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1 File number 13

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