When a river is a person: from Ecuador to New Zealand, nature gets its day in court
Mihnea Tanasescu
Open Rivers · 2017
doi:10.24926/2471190x.3300 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
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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