The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law Existing Frameworks, Intersections and Future Pathways
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law
- The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Legislation
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I One Health in Existing Legal Structures
- Part II One Health and Contemporary Legal Structures
- Part III One Health and Future Legal Structures
- 12 Reorienting One Health Governance towards Indigenous Understanding
- 13 The Convention on Animal Protection
- 14 Advancing One Health Legal and Policy Action for the Environment
- 15 One Health and Multispecies Urban Infrastructure
- 16 Achieving One Health Policy Objectives through a Legally Supported, Value-Based Health and Care Approach
- 17 Public Health Law
- 18 One Health in South Africa
- Index
13 - The Convention on Animal Protection
A Cathartic Resolution to a Global Pandemic Story
from Part III - One Health and Future Legal Structures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law
- The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Legislation
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I One Health in Existing Legal Structures
- Part II One Health and Contemporary Legal Structures
- Part III One Health and Future Legal Structures
- 12 Reorienting One Health Governance towards Indigenous Understanding
- 13 The Convention on Animal Protection
- 14 Advancing One Health Legal and Policy Action for the Environment
- 15 One Health and Multispecies Urban Infrastructure
- 16 Achieving One Health Policy Objectives through a Legally Supported, Value-Based Health and Care Approach
- 17 Public Health Law
- 18 One Health in South Africa
- Index
Summary
Drafted by international animal law scholars and attorneys, the Convention on Animal Protection for Public Health, Animal Well-Being, and the Environment (CAP) was designed to help secure the interests of not just animals but also the environment we share. Delving into the context and contours of the CAP as an umbrella convention, this chapter first discusses the need to provide for more robust animal protections as part of a genuine One Health model. Next, the chapter observes how states have failed to enshrine such protections into international law. Then, we explore whether the CAP can manifest meaningful change. Exploring how CAP’s provision for additional protocols will enable the treaty to grow more robust with time, the chapter discusses prospects for its ratification and explores how it would complement existing animal-related treaties and concludes by emphasizing how CAP, if ratified, would dramatically improve the landscape for animals, the environment, and humankind.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of One Health and the LawExisting Frameworks, Intersections and Future Pathways, pp. 196 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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