Welcome to the GNHRE mailing list.
The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment (GNHRE) has been established to help scholars build a creative, interactive space for collaboration on themes and projects related to the interface between human rights and the environment: co-publication initiatives, joint funding bids, events planning - all these and more can be facilitated freely through this list. Although there are list facilitators, this is a true network, with no hierarchy or centre, as such - just a space in which interests can fruitfully converge.
This list is also linked to a web-based project, again called GNHRE, which, among other things, is planned as a host site for an online research repository. The website is very much a work in progress at present, but we are under some time urgency in relation to our first major task - something that we can begin alongside finalising the site. The first major challenge for the GNHRE network and website is to be an attempt to gather papers from scholars working on the use of human rights guarantees in various national constitutional courts to protect environmental interests. This information is vital for the UNEP team currently working on the Draft Declaration of Human Rights and the Environment, and it would be fabulous to be able to assist them with relevant research and scholarship.
Ultimately, and alongside attempting to address this first challenge, GNHRE needs a wide network of scholars willing to send in abstracts and links to papers, or abstracts and the papers themselves, in order that the GNHRE Virtual Research Repository can an ongoing contribution by making available a wide range of materials to the academic, policy-making and NGO/civic communities. The project welcomes items of news, and country/regional updates on issues relevant to human rights and the environment as well - and would also welcome the submission of researcher profiles and areas of interest.
The Journal of Human Rights and the Environment is also officially linked to the project.
Please, get involved. Please send abstracts and links to papers, or papers themselves to [log in to unmask] Pass the word on! Together we can build a wonderful resource that adds value to the work that all of us do, and which can facilitate scholarly engagement with a range of issues at the heart of the challenges facing us all as a species.
Please visit the website (excuse its currently rough and ready appearance - it will improve), check out the categories of research materials, and send abstracts and links/papers, along with a note of which categories your work should appear in.
Please pass the news about the network to all scholars you know working in this vitally important field concerning the interface between human rights and the environment.
Warm regards,
Anna Grear
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