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dc.contributor.authorDeur, Douglas
dc.contributor.authorRecalma-Clutesi, Kim
dc.contributor.authorDick, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-02T09:36:50Z
dc.date.available2021-06-02T09:36:50Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48884
dc.description.abstractThis book, and the intellectual and legal movement summarised within its pages, charts a bold alternative course for humanity. That there are certain ‘rights of Nature’ intrinsic to landscapes and life-forms around the world is a revolutionary assertion, yet an assertion with abundant and venerable precedents. By the logic of this movement, nonhuman beings have intrinsic existential rights and, by extension, should possess certain rights protecting their survival and interests within the evolving legal practices of modern nations. Concepts akin to human rights are thus extended to populations of wild nonhuman species, and to landforms such as mountains or rivers, on which many other lives depend. These entities might then possess rights to representation in legal arenas akin to personhood – so that certain keystone landforms or living beings cannot be destroyed for the profit of human individuals without overwhelmingly compelling reasons, nor damaged without efforts to directly compensate nonhuman ‘claimants’ for damages.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LN Laws of Specific jurisdictions::LNK Environment, transport & planning law::LNKJ Environment lawen_US
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TQ Environmental science, engineering & technologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNK Environment, transport and planning law: general::LNKJ Environment lawen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNK Conservation of the environmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technologyen_US
dc.subject.otherCameron, Chris, Follette, La, Maser, Nature, Practice, Rights, Sustainabilityen_US
dc.titleChapter 6 When God Put Daylight on Earth We Had One Voice’Kwakwaka'wakw Perspectives on Sustainability and the Rights of Natureen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9780429505959-6en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBookf4c8b585-db3a-4b50-8330-7bb8fda97bb4en_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBydf39723b-670d-4f0a-acc9-e2f262574390en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781138584518en_US
oapen.imprintCRC Pressen_US
oapen.pages25en_US


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