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Environmental Personhood

Identification

Public canonical key
doi:10.4324/9781003388272
Authors
Francine Rochford
Reported year
2024
Reported language
en
Source type
book
First detected
2026-11-09T19:04:47.510807+00:00
Last metadata observation
2026-11-10T01:19:03.041896+00:00
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Documentary abstract — original language

This book examines the increasingly widespread movement to recognise the environment as a legal person. Several countries have now recognized that nature, or parts of nature, have juristic personhood. In this book, the concept of legal personhood and its incidents are interrogated with a view to determining whether this is, or could be, a positive contribution to modern environmental problems. Surveying historical and current positions on the juristic concept of legal personhood, the book engages recent legislation and case law, in order to consider the attempt in several countries to vest personhood in rivers, river basins and ecosystems. Comparing approaches in a range of countries – including New Zealand, India, Ecuador, the United States and Australia, it addresses the methods employed, the purported aims, the mechanisms for enforcement, and the entrenchment of legal protections. Throughout, the book elicits the difficult relationship between an historically anthropocentric idea of personhood and its extension beyond the human; concluding that the attribution of personhood to the environment is an important, but limited, contribution to environmental sustainability. Accessibly written, this book will appeal to scholars, students and others with interests in environmental law, environmental science and public policy, and ecology more generally.

Identifiers

DOI
10.4324/9781003388272
OPENALEX
W4390538166
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ISBN
1003388272 · 9781003388272

Documentary context

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Book
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Book · book · monograph
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AU · EC · IN · NZ · US
Publishers
Routledge
Natural entities mentioned
River · Ecosystem

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Book bibliographic description

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Routledge

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    Cite this reference

    Francine Rochford. Environmental Personhood. 2024. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272

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    Francine Rochford. (2024). Environmental Personhood. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272
    Chicago
    Francine Rochford. Environmental Personhood. Routledge. 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272
    ISO 690
    Francine Rochford. Environmental Personhood. 2024. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272

    UDTR Global Rights of Nature Legal Library. Environmental Personhood. Documentary record: https://www.declarationuniverselledesdroitsdelarbre.org/global-rights-of-nature-radar/reference/r-cdc3fa1d1e92e5e7dfa181b966c4cfff/ · Last HTTP verification: not performed

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    OpenAIRE · source · 2026-11-09T19:08:58.528645+00:00
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    Francine Rochford

    Source roles

    Discovery source · http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272

    Bibliographic / original publication source · https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003388272

    Discovery source · https://openalex.org/W4390538166

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