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Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2005 The twentieth century saw a vigorous debate over the nature of rights.\ud Will theorists argued that the function of rights is to allocate domains of\ud freedom. Interest theorists portrayed rights as defenders of well-being.\ud Each side declared its conceptual analysis to be closer to an ordinary\ud understanding of what rights there are, and to an ...
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AbstractThere are, the authors discussed in the previous chapter have shown, many distinct ways to make law less anthropocentric and more ecocentric: to some, this means the extension of rights of nature and, or, granting nature legal personhood and standing to nature; to others, a stronger application of the precautionary principle, the adoption of ...
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Revista Colombiana de Bioética, 2018 This paper is a review of international and national case law aimed at presenting and evaluating the considerations within Colombian rulings that have opened a path toward the recognition of new subjects of rights, and of foreign rulings used as ...
Alejandra Molano Bustacara +1 more
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Joni Adamson, Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University
Panorama, 2019 Today my ecocritical praxis continues to focus on literature of environmental justice and also involves biosemiotics, which is the study of qualitative semiotic or communicative capabilities that are considered to exist in a variety of nonhuman life ...
Joni Adamson
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Universal Human Rights? Historical and Contemporary Comments
Politeja, 2021 The concept of human rights, supposedly of universal importance, is usually derived from the tradition referred to as “Western”. Although the “classic approaches” – Greek, Roman and Christian, refer to the norms of natural law, making them the basis or ...
Bogdan Szlachta
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Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2019 This article critically addresses the crucial aspects for understanding the rights of nature as a resistance platform for indigenous peoples in Ecuador. By basing my arguments in a post-colonial approach to human rights and the concept of coloniality of ...
Juan José Guzmán
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Recognizing the rights of nature in Colombia : the Atrato river case.
Jurídicas, 2020 This article studies the recognition of Río Atrato as a subject of rights through Judgment T-622-16 of the Constitutional Court, in a case without precedent in Colombian Law.
Iván Vargas Chaves +3 more
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE IDEA OF NATURAL RIGHTS
Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly, 2023 Based on the findings of other publications, this paper attempts to assess whether the ideas of natural rights and human rights can be understood as identical. The first part of the paper outlines, from a historical perspective, the idea of natural rights; the second part presents elements of the conception of human rights.
Marcin MERKWA, Milan SUDZINA
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Implementing Rights of Nature: An EU Natureship to Address Anthropocentrism in Environmental Law
Utrecht Law Review, 2023 Transboundary issues – from (chemical) pollution, land-use change to unsustainable levels of exploitation – have been eroding natural sites across Europe, reducing biodiversity in the process.
Niels Hoek +4 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Introduction: The recognition of the Rights of Nature has been established though several constitutional, legislative, and judicial enactments, which aim to provide legal protection for non-humans’ entities and natural systems.
Fátima Alves +5 more
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