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Book Reviews The Right to Be a Part of Nature: Indigenous Peoples and the Environment by Leena Heinämäki, Acta Universitatis Lapponiensis 180, Lapland University Press, Rovaniemi (2010). 262 pp. ISBN 978-952-484-367-6 Laura Westra* The book is a thoroughly researched and well-written book that belongs in the library of anyone who has an interest in human rights, the environment or international law. In fact, I wish I had access to it when I published my own volume on a similar topic (see: Westra, Laura, Environmental Justice and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Earthscan, London, UK, 2008). Leena Heinamaki notes early in her work that in international law "the environment" is an ambiguous concept in itself, and that all the terms used to modify it are even more uncertain, ambiguous and in general not specific enough to form part of binding legislation (p. 17). The author notes as well, that procedural rights, although more easily available in international law, may have little force, where "there are no substantial norms upon which to base the use of these rights" (ibid.). However, Heinamaki does not question why no binding substantive norms exist, nor does she describe why so many terms
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