Ellen Miles

Ellen Miles is an author and environmental advocate. Nature Is a Human Right examines the growing body of evidence that access to nature is not a luxury but a fundamental human need, and that ensuring equal access to green spaces and the natural world is a matter of justice as well as wellbeing. The book makes the case that nature deprivation — disproportionately experienced by people in urban and economically disadvantaged communities — is a public health crisis and a social justice issue. Miles combines scientific research with advocacy, arguing for policies that treat access to nature as a right rather than a privilege. Available as both a book and an audiobook, Nature Is a Human Right offers important listening and reading for environmentalists, urban planners, public health advocates and anyone who believes that everyone deserves access to the healing power of the natural world.