Rights of Nature
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Rights of Nature

A Re-examination

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Rights of Nature

A Re-examination

About this book

Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age. In recent years, a diverse range of countries and jurisdictions have adopted these norms, which involve granting legal rights to nature or natural objects, such as rivers, forests, or ecosystems. This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders and analyzes legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to this development.

Drawing on contributions from a range of experts in the field, Rights of Nature: A Re-examination investigates the potential for this innovative idea to revolutionize the concepts of rights, standing, and recognition as traditionally understood in many legal systems. Taking as its starting point Stone's influential 1972 article "Should Trees Have Standing?, " the book examines the progress rights of nature have made since that time, by identifying central themes, unifying principles, and key distinctions in how rights of nature discourse has been operationalized in the disciplines of law, philosophy, and the social sciences. These themes and principles are illustrated through a wide variety of examples, including ecosystem services, indigenous thinking, and ecological restoration, demonstrating how the relationship between humanity and the natural world may be transforming.

Taking a philosophical, political, and legal perspective, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and policy, environmental ethics, and philosophy.

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Yes, you can access Rights of Nature by Daniel P. Corrigan, Markku Oksanen, Daniel P. Corrigan,Markku Oksanen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Environmental Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780367774974
eBook ISBN
9781000386134
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Environmental Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Rights of Nature: Exploring the Territory
  10. 2 Taking Stock of the Rights of Nature
  11. 3 Pachamama as a Legal Person? Rights of Nature and Indigenous Thought in Ecuador
  12. 4 “Rights of Nature” in a Water Market
  13. 5 The Rights of Nature as Politics
  14. 6 Environmentally Conditioned Human Rights: A Good Idea?
  15. 7 Human Rights and Rights of Nature: Prospects for a Linkage Argument
  16. 8 Rights-Based Restoration
  17. 9 Toward a New Framework for Rights of the Biotic Community
  18. 10 Fundamental Challenges for Rights of Nature
  19. 11 Close Reading Stone: Investigating the Seminal Article
  20. Index