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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. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want to create such rights, and to what end? Is it a good idea, and does it come with risks? 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. Mihnea Tanasescu offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the intrusion of nature into law is sure to raise.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 168
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date:
27 February 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.31 in
ISBN: 9783837654318
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
PHILOSOPHY / Social, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy
»The book clearly succeeds in opening up the debate on what RoN are, could, and should be like.«
Mihnea Tanasescu, born in 1984, is a political ecologist with a background in human ecology, philosophy, and political science. He has published widely on the political representation of other than human beings. He was a research fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and a visiting fellow at the University of Auckland, NZ (Law), and the New School for Social Research, USA (Politics).
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Chapter I: Introduction 9
Chapter II: Rights Meet Nature 19
Chapter III: From Theory to Practice 47
Chapter IV: Diversity of Practice 73
Chapter V: The Perils of Totality 95
Chapter VI: From Practice to Theory 121
Chapter VII: Conclusions 147
Bibliography 155