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Disrobing Rights: The Privilege of Being Human in the Rights of Nature Discourse
Tabios Hillebrecht examines layers of power involved in human-nature relations, and how they can undermine Rights of Nature.
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Rights of Nature and the Precautionary Principle
Mariqueo-Russell highlights the mutually supportive relationship between Rights of Nature and the Precautionary Principal.
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Courting Nature: Advances in Indian Jurisprudence
Brara relates a story of contemporary India in the process of transition, where legal approaches to Nature are changing.
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Defending Rivers: Vilcabamba in the South of Ecuador
Berros describes some of the first cases in which Rights of Nature was directly referenced in the courts of Ecuador.
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River Rights and the Rights of Rivers: The Case of Acheloos
Kalantzakos describes how flawed policy decisions damaged Greece’s Archeloos river, and how Rights of Nature could have mitigated the damage.
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"Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds"
In this special issue on Multispecies Studies, Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose attempt to dwell with the kinds of writing and thinking practices that we have been developing in their research in Hawai’i over the past seven years. Their aim is to develop “lively ethographies”: a mode of knowing, engaging, and storytelling that recognizes the meaningful lives of others and that, in so doing, enlivens our capacity to respond to them by singing up their character or ethos.
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NIES: Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies
The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) promotes interdisciplinary environmental studies, especially work in the environmental humanities. The network is supported by NordForsk, and is based in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland.
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HfE: Humanities for the Environment Observatories
The aim of the Humanities for the Environment Observatories (HfE) is to identify, explore, and demonstrate the contributions that humanistic and artistic disciplines make to solving global social and environmental challenges.
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The Limits of Techno-management in Transitioning to Green Cities
Nir Barak explores the limits of techno-managerial approaches towards creating greener cities.
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"The Beaver Diaspora: A Thought Experiment"
The author attempts to reframe the classical distinction in conservation biology between native and invasive species by referring to migration and settlement of nonhuman beings as diasporas. She uses the introduction of Canadian beavers in Chilean Tierra del Fuego in 1947 as a case study.