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The rights of nature and the human right to nature: an overview of the European legal system and challenges for the ecological transition

open access: yesFrontiers 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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Putting the rights of nature on the map. A quantitative analysis of rights of nature initiatives across the world

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2022
The Rights of Nature (RoN) promote a new understanding of the human environment, where natural entities are conceived as subjects with intrinsic value independent of human interests. The implementation of this idea gained momentum in the United States in
Alex Putzer   +3 more
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Rights of nature

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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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Animals and Nature as New Subjects of Rights: A Study of the most Relevant Judicial Decisions in Colombia

open access: yesRevista 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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Recognizing the rights of nature in Colombia : the Atrato river case.

open access: yesJurídicas, 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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Rethinking legal time: The temporal turn in socio-legal studies

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023
This article introduces a temporal approach to law as potentially innovative for socio-legal studies. It argues that bringing a focus on time into legal thought and practice is an important move for decentering the individual subject as conventionally ...
Veronica Pecile
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Joni Adamson, Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University

open access: yesPanorama, 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

open access: yesPoliteja, 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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Decolonizing Law and expanding Human Rights: Indigenous Conceptions and the Rights of Nature in Ecuador

open access: yesDeusto 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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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE IDEA OF NATURAL RIGHTS

open access: yesHumanities 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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