“Ecological Constitutionalism: A Necessity”
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
In view of the escalating environmental crisis, the democratic states of the Global North must ecologically transform their social and constitutional orders.
This film takes viewers on a journey that explores the more recent origins of the “rights of nature,” and its application and implementation in Ecuador, New Zealand, and the United States.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, David R. Boyd is interviewed on his recent book, The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World.
The authors provide an empirical study of the conservation strategy adopted in the northern Sierra Madre, the Philippines, and criticize the assumptions behind the main legalistic interventions.
Bas Verschuuren reviews the book World Heritage Sites and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, edited by Stefan Disko and Helen Tugehndhat.
Erin Ryan shares her work on negotiated federalism, exploring how good multiscalar governance is often the product of intergovernmental bargaining among decision makers at various levels of government.
This article tells the epic tale of the fall and rise of Mono Lake— the strange and beautiful Dead Sea of California—which fostered some of the most important environmental law developments of the last century.