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Record Nr.

UNISA996456643403316

Autore

Tanasescu Mihnea <1984->

Titolo

Understanding the Rights of Nature : A Critical Introduction / / Mihnea Tanasescu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-8394-5431-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (168 p.)

Collana

Neue Ökologie ; ; 6

Soggetti

POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter I: Introduction -- Chapter II: Rights Meet Nature -- Chapter III: From Theory to Practice -- Chapter IV: Diversity of Practice -- Chapter V: The Perils of Totality -- Chapter VI: From Practice to Theory -- Chapter VII: Conclusions -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities to be touched by the relentless expansion of rights in our world. But what does it mean for a landscape to have rights? Why would anyone want to recognize such rights, and to what end? Is it a good idea, and does it come with risks? This book presents the logic behind giving nature rights and discusses the most important cases in which this has happened. Mihnea Tanasescu offers clear answers to the thorny questions that the intrusion of nature into law is sure to raise.