During the last two decades regulations around the world has recognized nature’s rights and, in some cases, declared natural entities as legal persons. This paper studies and compares two examples of this global development in law: the rivers Whanganui in New Zealand and Ganga and Yamuna in the region of Uttarakhand in India. In short, the following results are found. Both regulations have been proceeded by litigations without the explicit purpose of providing the rivers with legal personality and both regulations are based in local traditional cosmovisions. The rivers are defined as legal and living persons. They have at least basic legal rights and responsibilities. Ganga and Yamuna explicitly have rights beyond these, but it is currently...
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to show how questions related to the environment and ...
The needs of indigenous peoples are related to land, water and other natural resources for sustainin...
Rights of Nature (RoN) approaches as a tool to protect ecosystems and nature is gaining growing atte...
The concepts of recognizing elements of nature as having legal personality have been appearing for m...
In March 2017, when the New Zealand Parliament enacted the law to validate a landmark 2012 agreement...
Recognition of the right to the environment as a human right in several jurisdictions revolutionised...
As pressures on water resources increase, the demand for innovative institutional arrangements, whic...
The concepts of recognizing elements of nature as having legal personality have been appearing for m...
In 2017, four rivers were granted legal rights: the Whanganui in New Zealand, Rio Atrato in Colombia...
In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental le...
An increasing number of court rulings and legislation worldwide are recognizing rights of nature to ...
In March of 2017, New Zealand passed the Te Awa Tupua Act, a law that established the river Whanganu...
Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, ...
The New Zealand Parliament has recently granted the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera mountain ecos...
In recent years, a growing number of States have granted legal status to natural entities. First, th...
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to show how questions related to the environment and ...
The needs of indigenous peoples are related to land, water and other natural resources for sustainin...
Rights of Nature (RoN) approaches as a tool to protect ecosystems and nature is gaining growing atte...
The concepts of recognizing elements of nature as having legal personality have been appearing for m...
In March 2017, when the New Zealand Parliament enacted the law to validate a landmark 2012 agreement...
Recognition of the right to the environment as a human right in several jurisdictions revolutionised...
As pressures on water resources increase, the demand for innovative institutional arrangements, whic...
The concepts of recognizing elements of nature as having legal personality have been appearing for m...
In 2017, four rivers were granted legal rights: the Whanganui in New Zealand, Rio Atrato in Colombia...
In the early 2000s, the idea of giving legal rights to nature was on the fringes of environmental le...
An increasing number of court rulings and legislation worldwide are recognizing rights of nature to ...
In March of 2017, New Zealand passed the Te Awa Tupua Act, a law that established the river Whanganu...
Laws that recognise rivers and their ecosystems as legal persons or subjects with their own rights, ...
The New Zealand Parliament has recently granted the Whanganui River and the Te Urewera mountain ecos...
In recent years, a growing number of States have granted legal status to natural entities. First, th...
International audienceThe aim of this paper is to show how questions related to the environment and ...
The needs of indigenous peoples are related to land, water and other natural resources for sustainin...
Rights of Nature (RoN) approaches as a tool to protect ecosystems and nature is gaining growing atte...