Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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

Inhalt

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