1. The environmental jurisprudence of international human rights tribunals / Dinah Shelton -- 2. The right to the conservation of the environment / Alexandre Kiss -- 3. Agenda 21 and human rights : the right to participate / Romina Picolotti -- 4. Public participation in the era of globalization / Claudia Saladin -- 5. The right to water as a human right / Ignacio J. Alvarez -- 6. Women's rights and the global population crisis / Michael Shaw -- 7. How human rights norms can contribute to environmental protection : some practical possibilities within the United Nations system / Caroline Dommen -- 8. Environmental advocacy and the inter-American human rights system / Jorge Daniel Taillant -- 9. Sharing common ground : a cautionary tale on the rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of biological diversity / Annecoos Wiersema -- 10. Mayagna Indigenous Community of Awas Tingni and its effort to gain recognition of traditional lands : the community's case before the human rights institutions of the Organization of American States / S. James Anaya