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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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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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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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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.
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
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
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
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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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
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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