How 'Rights of Nature' Is Recasting the Relationship Between Law and the Earth [1]
In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out in many different ways.
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Features [2]
Topics on the Beat:
Activism [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Chemicals [5]
Climate Change [6]
Fish & Fisheries [11]
Forests [12]
Government [13]
Laws & Regulations [14]
Natural Resources [15]
Policy [16]
Pollution [17]
Water & Oceans [19]
Region:
National (U.S.) [20]
California [21]
International [24]
Africa [25]
Asia [26]
Australia & Oceania [27]
South America [28]
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Public [29]
