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  1. The Honor of Human Rights: Environmental Rights and the Duty of Intergenerational Promise.Richard P. Hiskes - 2016 - Human Rights Review 17 (4):463-478.
    The idea of human rights either as a moral system or as a set of legal practices does not sit well with the concept of honor. This is true for both ontological reasons and because of some reprehensible misuses of the term in constructs such as “honor killings.” Yet the absence of honor as an argument for human rights comes with a high cost in the defense of human rights generally. As Hobbes made clear in his early theory, rights—and dignity—are (...)
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  • Environmental human rights and intergenerational justice.Richard P. Hiskes - 2006 - Human Rights Review 7 (3):81-95.
    What do the living owe those who come after them? It is a question nonsensical to some and unanswerable to others, yet tantalizing in its persistence especially among environmentalists. This article makes a new start on the topic of intergenerational justice by bringing together human rights and environmental justice arguments in a novel way that lays the groundwork for a theory of intergenerational environmental justice based in the human rights to clean air, water, and soil. Three issues foundational to such (...)
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