Research projects and outputs

GCHL & UK Faculty of Public Health, From Analysis to Action. Climate Change Litigation: A Guide for Public Health Practioners (November 2023 - PDF)

D. Patterson, M Hesselman et al (2022) Post COP26: legal action now part of public health’s environment and climate change toolbox, European Journal of Public Health 519-520

D. Patterson (2021) ‘The right to health and the climate crisis: the vital role of civic space’ Health and Human Rights Journal

M. Hesselman (2021) 'Climate change as a global health threat in International Climate Law and Human Rights Law, in Toebes et al, Global Health Law Disrupted: COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis (TMC Asser, Preadviezen No. 148) 87-130

M. Hesselman (2021) 'EU Climate Law and Human Rights' in Woerdman et al, Essential EU Climate Law(Edward Elgar, 2nd ed.) 259-292 (Google books).

M. Hesselman (2021) 'Domestic climate litigation’s turn to human rights and international climate law'in: Merkouris, Fitzmaurice and Brus (eds), Research Handbook on International Environmental Law(Edward Elgar, 2nd ed) 369-393.

M. Hesselman, 'Access to Disaster Risk Information, Early Warning and Education and Awareness: Implementing the Sendai Framework through International Human Rights Law' in Katja Samuel and Marie Aronsson-Storrier, International Law and Disaster Risk Reduction (Cambridge University Press 2019) 188-216.

M. Hesselman 'Gender and Health in the Context of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change' (15 November 2017) Global Health Law Groningen Blog Post

Marlies Hesselman & Lottie Lane (2017), 'Disasters and Non-State Actors: A Human Rights-Based Approach' Disaster Prevention and Management 26(5), pp. 526-539 (open access)

Lottie Lane & Marlies Hesselman (2017) 'Governing Disasters: Embracing Human Rights Law in a Multi-Level, Multi-Actor Governance Sphere' , Governance and Politics 5(2), pp. 93-104 (open access)

Marlies Hesselman & Brigit Toebes, The Human Right to Health and Climate Change: A Legal Perspective , Global Health Law Groningen Research Paper (and Input to the Study of the UNOHCHR (31 October 2015) (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2688544)

Marlies Hesselman, COP21 and the Right to Health: A Right to a Healthy Climate Deal? , Global Health Law Groningen Blog (9 December 2015).

Marlies Hesselman, Energy poverty, climate change, and the right to health: international obligations to cooperate for clean cook stoves ? Global Health Law Groningen Blog, (14 October 2015).

Dug Cubie & Marlies Hesselman (2015) Accountability for the Human Rights Implications of Natural Disasters: A Proposal for Systemic International Oversight , Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 33(1), 9-41.

Marlies Hesselman (2014) Regional Human Rights Regimes and Humanitarian Obligations in the Event of Disasters . In A. Zwitter, C. Lamont, H-J. Heintze, & J. Herman (Eds.), Humanitarian Action: Global, Regional and Domestic Legal Responses to Local Challenges. (pp. 202-227). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hesselman, M. (2013). Establishing a Full ‘Cycle of Protection’ for Disaster Victims: Preparedness, Response and Recovery according to Regional and International Human Rights Supervisory Bodies . Tilburg Law Review, 18(2), 106-132.

D. Patterson, M. Hesselman et al, '‘Future-proofing your human rights research: Climate change as a cross-cutting issue for human rights research' (26 September 2023)  Organisers Workshop for Netherlands Network of Human Rights Research

M. Hesselman,  'Strategic litigation on health, human rights and climate change' (16 June 2023) Conference on Strategic Litigation and Public Health, Liverpool

D. Patterson et al, Workshop: Climate crisis and public health: public health practitioners are key to successful litigation(Nov. 2022) European Journal of Public Health iii200-iii201

D. Patterson and A. Garde, "Building capacity to use legal tools to address climate change through a public health lens" (Nov. 2022)European Journal of Public Health iii473

M. Hesselman, 'Strategic Litigation, Human Rights and Health' (Nov. 2022) 14th European Public Health Conference (EUPHA)

M. Hesselman, 'Environmental Health, Climate and Pandemic Risk: Responding through Global Health' (Nov. 2022) Panel organised at NEEDS2022 Conference, Copenhagen

M. Hesselman, 'Climate change and courts' (22 April 2022)  Sabin Center/UNEP Annual Conference on Global Climate Litigation, New York/online

Marlies Hesselman, 'The Right to Health and Climate Change: Human Rights Based Approaches to Transformative Climate Adaptation (7 December 2018) Presentation at Side Event UNFCCC COP 24, Katowice, Poland

Marlies Hesselman, 'Regulating Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution in International Law' (3 July 2018) Lecture at Jean Monnet Summer School, Climate Change, Health and Environment, University of Salerno

Marlies Hesselman, Comment on Draft CEDAW 36: Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction in a Changing Climate: A Right to Health Perspective (16 October 2017) Utrecht University/SIM, Netherlands.

Marlies Hesselman, Contours of a Human Right to Sustainable Energy services Access for All? (14 September 2017) Inter-University Legal Research Network Conference, Groningen.

Marlies Hesselman, International Human Rights Law and Disaster Risk Reduction: Evidence from International Human Rights Practice (1 July 2017) Reading University/Walker Institute, UK.

Participation in the UN OHCHR Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Human Rights (6-7 October 2016, Geneva, Palais des Nations)

Marlies Hesselman, ‘ Environmental Health’, ILA Committee on Global Health Law (13 March 2017, Graduate Institute for International Law, Geneva, Switzerland)