Who Needs Rights of Nature?
Jens Kersten outlines the five possible ways of framing Nature that currently exist within our legal system.
Jens Kersten outlines the five possible ways of framing Nature that currently exist within our legal system.
Mariqueo-Russell highlights the mutually supportive relationship between Rights of Nature and the Precautionary Principal.
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.
Once a benefit to humanity but now a scourge, the environment of the Niger Delta has been transformed into a haven for violence, militancy, and criminality.
May Tan-Mullins looks at the decision-making processes involved in developing the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city in China.
Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.
A Tuesday Discussion with Lena Köhn.
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