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Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction
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Abstract Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want to create such rights, and to what end? Is it a goo... mehr
Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want to create such rights, and to what end? Is it a good idea, and does it come with risks? This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and discusses the most important cases in which this has happened, ranging from constitutional rights of nature in Ecuador to rights for rivers in New Zealand, Colombia, and India. The author offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the intrusion of nature into law is sure to raise.... weniger
Klassifikation
Ökologie und Umwelt
Philosophie, Theologie
Freie Schlagwörter
Civil Society; Ecuador; Environmental Policy; Law; Legal Personality; Nature; New Zealand; Political Science; Politics; Rights of Nature; Social Movements; Social Philosophy
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
165 S.
Schriftenreihe
New Ecology, 6
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839454312
ISBN
978-3-8394-5431-2
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0