Human Rights Economies and Subnational Governance

Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-75599-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Human Rights

This book examines the understudied area of subnational human rights and the human rights economy.

Against the context of increasing economic and political power of local level governments – both cities and subnational regions – this interdisciplinary volume provides a crucial examination of economic policies that are grounded in human rights principles and obligations while being implemented in the places people live. Policies which promote economic justice and prosperity present many opportunities and challenges, and this book proposes ways in which local economic policies can respect, protect, and fulfil human rights, with positive multiplier effects at the national and global levels.

This book will be of keen interest to scholars, students and practitioners in human rights, economics, law, development, and urban studies; and professionals and policymakers involved in local economic development planning and the implementation of human rights norms.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davis, Martha F.

Bisnath, Savitri

Kjaerum, Morten

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Towards local human rights economies  Part 1: Human rights economy  1. Towards localised economic policies for people and the planet  2. Right to development and local economies  3. Scaling the human rights economy: Subnational engagements  4. Human rights economies and the role of local government public budgets  Part 2: Local – National – International nexus  5. What human rights and the 5Rs can provide for the reform of the tax architecture at the global, national, and local levels  6. Biosphere defenders operationalising the prevention principle in climate adaptation through territorial planning  7. Water governance and human rights economies  8. Human rights as a key to unlock a just transition for the built environment  9. Human rights and spatial planning: Addressing the increasing tensions over access to land and resources  Part 3: Subnational implementation of human rights economy  10. Towards the realisation of a human rights economy through human rights budgeting at local level  11. Devolution and the right to budgetary participation: Insights from subnational governments in Midlands Province, Zimbabwe  12. The role of local governments in upholding human rights and promoting economic justice: Addressing corruption and illicit financial flows  13. Municipal monies as policy tools to advance human rights economies  14. The racial wealth gap and localized solutions for promoting equality and justice

Über Autor(innen)

Savitri Bisnath is Senior Director of Global Policy at the Institute of Race, Power and Political Economy at the New School, USA.

Morten Kjaerum is Adjunct Professor at the University of Aalborg, Denmark, and Affiliated Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI), Sweden.

Martha F. Davis is Distinguished Professor of Law and co-Director of the Center on Global Law & Justice at Northeastern University, USA. She is an Affiliated Scholar at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Sweden.