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Producing juridical knowledge: “Rights of Nature” or the naturalization of rights?

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2018
Rights of Nature, the idea of extending legal personhood to nature, is today’s most prominent alternative to mainstream environmental governance. Proponents describe Rights of Nature as a grassroots movement of diverse actors opposing commodification of life and anthropocentric dualism of western thought.
Ariel Rawson, Becky Mansfield
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Rights of Nature

2021
Abstract With the onset of climate change, the prospect of mass extinction, and the closing window of opportunity to take meaningful action, a growing number of activists, lawyers, scientists, policy-makers, and everyday people are calling for Rights of Nature (RoN) to be legally recognized as a way to transform human legal and ...
Daniel P. Corrigan, Markku Oksanen
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Rights of Nature

FORUM, 2020
Artist Jo Dacombe remembers a school residency when she was working as an Associate Artist at Nottingham Contemporary, a large contemporary arts centre. Through the residency, she worked with a group of primary children of mixed ages to explore themes from the exhibition Rights of Nature.
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Rights of Nature, Rights of Animals

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
In this essay, I show how developments and achievements in the field of environmental rights and specifically rights of nature can be instructive, intellectually and practically, to the cause of animal protection and animal rights. That instruction includes not only positive examples but also notes of caution, where animal law may face different and ...
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Rights of nature

New Scientist, 2019
Is giving a lake, mountain or forest legal personhood a clever way to protect the environment?
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Private Rights of Nature

Transnational Environmental Law, 2022
AbstractThe Rights of Nature concept not only breaks with the anthropocentrism of existing (environmental) law; it also recognizes that nature has private interests, in addition to being of public interest. That is, whereas in classic sustainability thinking, the use of certain resources is allowed as long as public interests are not systematically ...
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The Nature of the Rights

2001
Abstract The closely related principles of ‘due process’ and ‘the rule of law’ are fundamental to the protection of human rights. Such rights can only be protected and enforced if the citizen has recourse to courts and tribunals which are independent of the state and which resolve disputes in accordance with fair procedures.
Richard Clayton, Hugh Tomlinson
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