Nature Is a Human Right

Auteur

Ellen Miles is an environmental justice activist from London. She is the founder of Nature is a Human Right, the campaign to make access to green space a right for all, and Dream Green, a social enterprise that educates and equips people to become guerrilla gardeners. In her spare time, she is a guerrilla gardener, and runs a local action group in Hackney. natureisahumanright.earth/.

Texte du rabat

Humans need - and deserve - contact with nature.

We depend on green, leafy surroundings for our health and happiness in innumerable, significant ways. As a key pillar of well-being, access to nature should be our right, not a privilege. But, as urban development spreads, gray is becoming the new green. Nature deprivation is a growing threat, harming millions of people worldwide - especially vulnerable and marginalized groups. It is an inequality that widens existing socioeconomic gaps by damaging physical, mental, and emotional health. To combat this, the Nature Is a Human Right campaign, founded in 2020 by Ellen Miles, is working to make access to green space a recognized human right.

This book has taken root from the mission and vision of the campaign, bringing together a collection of engaging, accessible essays, curated by [NIAHR/an authoritative figure in this field], from a selection of its expert ambassadors and supporters (including leading authors, artists, podcasters, journalists, photographers, human rights experts, climate activists and eco-educators). Each contributor shares their personal experiences in nature and explores green spaces through subjects such as mental and physical health, racial equality, intersectional environmentalism, climate change, queer environmentalism, permaculture, rewilding, art and creativity, and environmentally just societies.

This is an informative, enlightening, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes heartbreaking, essential, and inspiring collection of writing that highlights the importance of nature, the threat of nature deprivation, and the work that needs to be done to make our environments happier, healthier, more equal spaces.

Résumé
Fighting for a green world — a collection of essays and writing for building an equal, healthier society. 

Access to the natural world is a human right. This inspiring book captures why contact with nature is essential for our mental, social and physical well-being — and how we can rethink urban development to create green city spaces and a return to nature.

Find an inspiring collection of original writings from world-leading “green” voices and discover:

   • Benefits and issues surrounding our access to nature 
   • Discussions on social and environmental justice
   • Why we need nature around us, how we’re being deprived of nature and what we can all do to change environmental and social issues
   • Edited by the founder of the environmental justice campaign Nature is a Human Right, Ellen Miles

Concrete outweighs every tree, bush, and shrub on Earth. Nature deprivation is a fast-growing epidemic, harming the health and happiness of hundreds of millions of people worldwide — especially vulnerable and marginalized groups. Nature is a Human Right, founded by Ellen Miles in 2020, is working to make access to green space a recognized right for all, not a privilege.

This book brings together a collection of engaging, accessible essays, interviews and exercises, from expert ambassadors and supporters (including authors, artists, scientists, human rights experts, television presenters, TED speakers, and climate activists). Each contributor offers a new perspective on why contact with nature should be a protected human right. 

Enlightening and sometimes uncomfortable, this collection of writing and ideas illuminate the work that needs to be done to make our global future happier.