This visualization traces the evolution of the environment and water as human rights, through codification in national constitutions and recognition in international law. The project’s full title is Towards the Environment and Water as Human Rights: Mapping Legal Conceptions of Environmental Human Rights Over Time.
Created by Alexis Wallace, Kyle Karnuta, and Adrien Comte, as part of an independent study on human rights and the environment directed by Erika Weinthal, in consultation with Angela Zoss, Data Visualization Coordinator at the Duke Library.