REVISITING: Rivers Should Have Legal Rights
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- doi:10.4324/9781003745532-21
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- Erin L. O’Donnell · Julián Suárez
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- 2026
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This chapter revisits the pitfalls and performance issues of granting legal rights to rivers, a novel response in water law to worldwide threats to river health. This chapter showcases the multiple legal mechanisms and forms that river rights and river personhood can take. However, river rights and river persons are not a panacea for river health. This chapter identifies multiple problems (such as compliance, enforcement, values mismatch, timeframes, and interaction with existing laws) that must be addressed at the law-making stage to avoid the high performativity and low substantive action of river rights. In doing so, this chapter highlights the risks of legal rights for rivers but also shows how these risks can be addressed. Community-led responses to waterway degradation must be constructed collectively and democratically. In colonial contexts, the rights and laws of Indigenous Peoples must be centred in any river-rights process, and Indigenous voices should lead the conversation.
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- W7161807569
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- 10.4324/9781003745532-21
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Erin L. O’Donnell; Julián Suárez. REVISITING: Rivers Should Have Legal Rights. 2026. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003745532-21
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- Erin L. O’Donnell; Julián Suárez. (2026). REVISITING: Rivers Should Have Legal Rights. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003745532-21
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