Understanding the Rights of Nature
Understanding the Rights of Nature Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in…
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Understanding the Rights of Nature
Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentless expansion of rights in our world. Why would anyone want to create such rights, and to what end? But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights?
This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and discusses the most important cases in which this has happened, ranging from constitutional rights of nature in Ecuador to rights for rivers in New Zealand, Colombia, and India. Is it a good idea, and does it come with risks? Mihnea Tanasescu offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the intrusion of nature into law is sure to
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The Rights of Man
On the Spirit of Rights
Origins of the Bill of Rights