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Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a
much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant
paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in
the United States and internationally in the fields of
environmental law and environmental sustainability. This shift
advocates building a relationship of integrity and reciprocity with
the planet by placing Nature in the forefront of our rights-based
legal systems. The authors discuss means of achieving this by
laying out Nature's Laws of Reciprocity and providing a roadmap of
the strategies and directions needed to create a Rights of
Nature-oriented legal system that will shape and maintain human
activities in an environmentally sustainable manner. This work is
enriched with an array of unique and relevant points of reference
such as the feudal notions of obligation, principles of traditional
indigenous cultivation, the Pope Francis Encyclical on the
environment, and the new Rights of Nature-based legal systems of
Ecuador and Bolivia that can serve as prototypes for the United
States and other countries around the world to help ensure a future
of environmental sustainability for all living systems.
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
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a
much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant
paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in
the United States and internationally in the fields of
environmental law and environmental sustainability. This shift
advocates building a relationship of integrity and reciprocity with
the planet by placing Nature in the forefront of our rights-based
legal systems. The authors discuss means of achieving this by
laying out Nature's Laws of Reciprocity and providing a roadmap of
the strategies and directions needed to create a Rights of
Nature-oriented legal system that will shape and maintain human
activities in an environmentally sustainable manner. This work is
enriched with an array of unique and relevant points of reference
such as the feudal notions of obligation, principles of traditional
indigenous cultivation, the Pope Francis Encyclical on the
environment, and the new Rights of Nature-based legal systems of
Ecuador and Bolivia that can serve as prototypes for the United
States and other countries around the world to help ensure a future
of environmental sustainability for all living systems.
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
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