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Legal Personhood of Rivers and the Failure of Imagination


Legal Personhood of Rivers and the Failure of Imagination

Legal Personhood of Rivers and the Failure of Imagination: A World Water Day Guest Post by Naveeda Khan. Posted by Jessica Covil-Manset. On ...

Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans - TED

recognized the legal personality of Lake Erie. And right here in California,. the Yurok Tribe granted legal personhood to the Klamath River.

A World Parliament of Rivers - Springs

Such failures catalyze the search for innovative legal ... personhood of rivers is popularly conflated with the legal construct of personhood.

Can You Hear the Rivers Sing? Legal Personhood, Ontology, and ...

The present failure of legal personhood to gain foothold in the United States ... by the River's Ecosystem failed to reach first base. There is a curious ...

Standing for Rivers, Mountains—and Trees—in the Anthropocene

... legal rights and legal personhood to rivers, mountains, and other natural entities. I analyze the ways in which courts and legislatures in ...

Does A River Have Rights? Inside The Movement To Grant Legal ...

... A River Have Rights? Inside The Movement To Grant Legal Personhood To Nature ... lack of food after people fled their homes. Food security ...

Can Nature Hold Rights? It's Not as Easy as You Think

Perhaps most famously, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand was accorded legal personhood in 2017. These kinds of development have ...

Can You Hear the Rivers Sing? Legal Personhood, Ontology, and ...

The present failure of legal personhood to gain foothold in the United States ... by the River's Ecosystem failed to reach first base. There is a curious ...

Of rivers, law and justice in the Anthropocene

This institutional failure to ascribe to rivers their legal ... The recognition (or, alternatively, attribution) of legal personhood to rivers ...

Muddy waters: on the problematic political ecology of the Atrato ...

Lack of legal pedagogy/socialisation of the sentence. A lack of ... Legal Personhood, Ontology, and the Nitty-Gritty of Governance', Ecology Law ...

Legal and Ontological Pluralism: Recognising Rivers as More-Than ...

... laws means that Māori still lack ... Giving Voice to Rivers: Legal Personality as Recognising Indigenous Peoples' Relationships to Water?

Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans

... legal scholar Kelsey Leonard. In this powerful talk, she shows why granting lakes and rivers legal "personhood" -- giving them the same legal ...

(PDF) Can you hear the rivers sing? Legal personhood, ontology ...

also faced potential recriminations for the temerity of filing suit. The present failure of legal personhood to gain foothold in the ...

Exploring the rights of nature in freshwater and marine ecosystems

For instance, the Whanganui River in New Zealand was granted legal personhood as a politically acceptable solution to resolve the ownership and management ...

WE ARE THE RIVER - University of Illinois Law Review

currently failing to protect these rivers. ... 18, 2019,. 8:30 AM), https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/8/18/20803956/bangladesh-rivers-legal-personhood-.

Where ordinary laws fall short: 'riverine rights' and constitutionalism

... failing to protect the river and its communities. Further, the ... legal personhood, with ownership rights vesting in the river itself.

Exploring Contestation in Rights of River Approaches

Increasingly, rivers are at the centre of debates about legal personhood and have captured the imagination of many legislators and courts as targeted ecosystems.

Of rivers, law and justice in the Anthropocene

This institutional failure to ascribe to rivers their legal ... The recognition (or, alternatively, attribution) of legal personhood to rivers ( ...

Legal Personality of Natural Features - Environmental Law Centre

Unfortunately, the same court decisions that recognized the legal personhood of the rivers, glaciers, other ... failure to enforce human rights laws in high- ...

The rights of nature, legal personhood, and other new ... - YouTube

Legal personhood” and laws regarding the “rights of nature” are ... river, Olympic Rainforest. Image by Rhett Butler. Time Codes ...