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Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practise
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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
chapter 2|26 pages
Defending the Tree of Life: The Ethical Justification for the Rights of Nature in a Theory of Justice
section Section II|180 pages
The Struggle for Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
chapter 5|10 pages
Kiribati and Climate Change
chapter 6|23 pages
‘When God Put Daylight on Earth We Had One Voice’Kwakwaka'wakw Perspectives on Sustainabilityand the Rights of Nature
chapter 8|26 pages
The Restoration of the Caledonian Forest and the Rights of Nature
chapter 9|24 pages
The Significance of the Stewardship Ethic of the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria's Niger Delta Region on Biodiversity Conservation
chapter 10|14 pages
German Energiewende : A Way to Sustainable Societies?
chapter 11|31 pages
Seasonally Flooded Savannas of South America: Sustainability and the Cattle-Wildlife Mosaic
section Section III|148 pages
Rights of Nature in the Law