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Implementing Rights of Nature: An EU Natureship to Address Anthropocentrism in Environmental Law

open access: yesUtrecht 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
doaj   +1 more source

Who owns native nature? Discourses of rights to land, culture, and knowledge in New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Michael Brown famously asked ‘Who owns native culture?’ This paper revisits that question by analyzing what happens to culture when the culturally defined boundary between it and nature becomes salient in the context of disputes between indigenous and ...
Goldsmith, Michael
core   +2 more sources

Outcomes of Ecuador’s Rights of Nature for Nature’s Sake

open access: yesAdvances in Environmental and Engineering Research, 2022
The rights of nature have been widely discussed at a philosophical level for a long time, but examples of its practical application are quite rare. Ecuador is the first country to incorporate this concept into its constitutional foundation and put the theory into practice.
Kelly Swing   +7 more
openaire   +1 more source

Refusing disembodiment: abortion and the paradox of reproductive rights in contemporary Italy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Employing insights from Italian sexual difference theory on law and rights, this article examines how both the text of the Italian Abortion Law of 1978 and its operation reveal the contradictions within liberal rights discourse on reproductive freedom ...
Hanafin, Patrick
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If Rivers Have Rights, do Fish Have Rights Too? Examining the Relationship Between Rights of Nature and Animal Rights

open access: yesJournal of Animal Law, Ethics and One Health
This article examines the intersection of the Rights of Nature (RoN) and animal rights, two increasingly influential paradigms in both academic discourse and judicial practice.
Eva Bernet Kempers
doaj   +1 more source

A Brook with Legal Rights: The Rights of Nature in Court [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Over two decades ago, Professor Christopher Stone asked what turned out to be a question of enduring interest: should trees have standing? His question was recently answered in the affirmative by a creek in Pennsylvania, which successfully intervened in ...
Babcock, Hope M.
core   +1 more source

Rights of Nature and the St. Louis River Estuary

open access: yesOpen Rivers
By Emily Levang. What if we related to water as our kin? I went to the St. Louis River estuary in early January together with my friend Cristin, who shares a dedication to care for this ecosystem.
Emily Levang
doaj   +1 more source

‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rights of Nature and the Spanish Constitution: The Case of the Mar Menor Lagoon [PDF]

open access: yesRevista d'Estudis Autonòmics i Federals
The purpose of this study is to analyse the constitutionality of Law 19/2022, based on the theory of the rights of nature, specifically its compatibility with the constitutional framework used by the Spanish State (Art.
Blanca Soro Mateo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Acts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
What is the nature of the “rights,” jurisprudentially, that the 1964 Civil Rights Act legally prescribed? And, more generally, what is a “civil right”?
West, Robin
core   +1 more source

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