The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future

Kauffman, Craig M.,Martin, Pamela L.

ISBN 10: 0262542927 / ISBN 13: 9780262542920

Published by The MIT Press, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262542927
• ISBN 13: 9780262542920
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

How Rights of Nature laws are transforming governance to address environmental crises through more ecologically sustainable approaches to development. 
 

With the window of opportunity to take meaningful action on climate change and mass extinction closing, a growing number of communities, organizations, and governments around the world are calling for Rights of Nature (RoN) to be legally recognized. RoN advocates are creating new laws that recognize natural ecosystems as subjects with inherent rights, and appealing to courts to protect those rights. Going beyond theory and philosophy, in this book Craig Kauffman and Pamela Martin analyze the politics behind the creation and implementation of these laws, as well as the effects of the laws on the politics of sustainable development.

Kauffman and Martin tell how community activists, lawyers, judges, scientists, government leaders, and ordinary citizens have formed a global movement to advance RoN as a solution to the environmental crises facing the planet. They compare successful and failed attempts to implement RoN at various levels of government in six countries--Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, India, New Zealand, and the United States--asking why these laws emerged and proliferated in the mid-2000s, why they construct RoN differently, and why some efforts at implementation are more successful than others. As they analyze efforts to use RoN as a tool for constructing more ecocentric sustainable development, capable of achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development goal of living "in harmony with Nature," Kauffman and Martin show how RoN jurisprudence evolves through experimentation and reshapes the debates surrounding sustainable development.

About the Author

Craig M. Kauffman is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon. Pamela L. Martin is Professor of Politics at Coastal Carolina University.