When a river is a person: from Ecuador to New Zealand, nature gets its day in court
In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. Today, New Zealand’s Whanganui River is a person under domestic law, and India’s Ganges River was recently granted human rights. In Ecuador, the Constitution enshr...
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doaj-fe17a28528be40609d3b9fcf97a9a2272021-08-02T21:40:50ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingOpen Rivers2471-190X2017-10-01Issue Eight : Fall 2017https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.3300When a river is a person: from Ecuador to New Zealand, nature gets its day in courtMihnea TanasescuIn the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. Today, New Zealand’s Whanganui River is a person under domestic law, and India’s Ganges River was recently granted human rights. In Ecuador, the Constitution enshrines nature’s “right to integral respect”. https://editions.lib.umn.edu/openrivers/article/when-a-river-is-a-person-from-ecuador-to-new-zealand-nature-gets-its-day-in-court/ internationallegalpolicy |
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In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental legal theory and public consciousness. Today, New Zealand’s Whanganui River is a person under domestic law, and India’s Ganges River was recently granted human rights. In Ecuador, the Constitution enshrines nature’s “right to integral respect”. |
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