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      Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practise book

      Edited ByCameron La Follette, Chris Maser
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 28 October 2019
      Pub. Location Boca Raton
      Imprint CRC Press
      DOI https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429505959
      Pages 436
      eBook ISBN 9780429505959
      Subjects Engineering & Technology, Environment and Sustainability
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      La Follette, C., & Maser, C. (Eds.). (2019). Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practise (1st ed.). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429505959

      ABSTRACT

      Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017). The first book laid out the international precursors for the Rights of Nature doctrine and described the changes required to create a Rights of Nature framework that supports Nature in a sustainable relationship rather than as an exploited resource. This follow-up work provides practitioners from diverse cultures around the world an opportunity to describe their own projects, successes, and challenges in moving toward a legal personhood for Nature. It includes contributions from Nepal, New Zealand, Canadian Native American cultures, Kiribati, the United States and Scotland, amongst others, by practitioners working on projects that can be integrated into a Rights of Nature framework. The authors also tackle required changes to shift the paradigm, such as thinking of Nature in a sacred manner, reorienting Nature’s rights and human rights, the conceptualization of restoration, and the removal of large-scale energy infrastructure.

      Curated by experts in the field, this expansive collection of papers will prove invaluable to a wide array of policymakers and administrators, environmental advocates and conservation groups, tribal land managers, and communities seeking to create or maintain a sustainable relationship with Nature.

      Features:

      • Addresses existing projects that are successfully implementing a Rights of Nature legal framework, including the difference it makes in practice
      • Presents the voices of practitioners not often recognized who are working in innovative ways towards sustainability and the need to grant a voice to Nature in human decision-making
      • Explores new ideas from the insights of a diverse range of cultures on how to grant legal personhood to Nature, restrain damaging human activity, create true sustainability, and glimpse how a Rights of Nature paradigm can work in different societies
      • Details the potential pitfalls to Rights of Nature governance and land use decisions from people doing the work, as well as their solutions
      • Discusses the basic human needs for shelter, food, and community in entirely new ways: in relationship with Nature, rather than in conquest of it

      Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429505959

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      section Section I|76 pages

      Concepts and Overviews

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Introduction: Rights of Nature, Sacred Lands and Sustainability in the Western Tradition

      ByCameron La Follette

      chapter 2|26 pages

      Defending the Tree of Life: The Ethical Justification for the Rights of Nature in a Theory of Justice

      ByKathryn Anne Gwiazdon

      chapter 3|19 pages

      Rights of Nature: Myth, Films, Laws and the Future

      ByEugen Cadaru

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Nature's Rights in Permaculture

      ByW. D. Scott Pittman

      section Section II|180 pages

      The Struggle for Sustainability and the Rights of Nature

      chapter 5|10 pages

      Kiribati and Climate Change

      ByHis Eminence Anote Tong, Cameron La Follette, Chris Maser

      chapter 6|23 pages

      ‘When God Put Daylight on Earth We Had One Voice’Kwakwaka'wakw Perspectives on Sustainabilityand the Rights of Nature

      ByDouglas Deur, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, Clan Chief Kwaxsistalla Adam Dick

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      chapter 7|28 pages

      Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Bhutan

      ByDechen Lham

      chapter 8|26 pages

      The Restoration of the Caledonian Forest and the Rights of Nature

      ByAlan Watson Featherstone

      chapter 9|24 pages

      The Significance of the Stewardship Ethic of the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria's Niger Delta Region on Biodiversity Conservation

      ByNgozi F. Unuigbe

      chapter 10|14 pages

      German Energiewende : A Way to Sustainable Societies?

      ByMichael W. Schröter, Dani Fössl

      chapter 11|31 pages

      Seasonally Flooded Savannas of South America: Sustainability and the Cattle-Wildlife Mosaic

      ByAlmira Hoogesteijn, José Luis Febles, Rafael Hoogesteijn

      chapter 12|20 pages

      Ocean Rights: The Baltic Sea and World Ocean Health

      ByMichelle Bender

      section Section III|148 pages

      Rights of Nature in the Law

      chapter 13|20 pages

      A River Is Born: New Zealand Confers Legal Personhood on the Whanganui River to Protect It and Its Native People

      ByChristopher Finlayson

      chapter 14|15 pages

      The Rights of Nature in Ecuador: An Overview of the New Environmental Paradigm

      ByHugo Echeverria, Francisco José Bustamante Romo Leroux

      chapter 15|15 pages

      The Godavari Marble Case and Rights of Nature Discourse in Nepal

      ByJony Mainaly

      chapter 16|20 pages

      Nature's Rights: Why the European Union Needs a Paradigm Shift in Law to Achieve Its 2050 Vision

      ByMumta Ito

      chapter 17|34 pages

      Nature's Rights through Lawmaking in the United States

      ByLindsey Schromen-Wawrin, Michelle Amelia Newman

      chapter 18|19 pages

      The Experiment with Rights of Nature in India

      ByKelly D. Alley, Tarini Mehta

      chapter 19|15 pages

      Caring for Country and Rights of Nature in Australia: A Conversation between Earth Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Law and Ethics

      ByMary Graham, Michelle Maloney

      chapter 20|4 pages

      Conclusion: Nature's Laws of Reciprocity

      ByChris Maser
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