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Law and the Environment: Towards a Geo-Constitutional Identity

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doi:10.1007/978-94-6265-779-3_13
Authors
Floor Fleurke · Han Somsen
Reported year
2026
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en
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Lund University · Tilburg University

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NL · SE

Documentary abstract — original language

This chapter posits that Dutch constitutional identity is unduly anthropocentric, and explores the potential of different vectors to transform this identity to one that is symbiotic, relational and caring. First, although article 21 Gw concerns the country’s habitability and living environment, in view of the prohibition of constitutional judicial review (article 120 Gw ) this provision is unlikely to evolve beyond its current limited substantive and temporal reach. Second, illustrated by cases such as Urgenda , articles 2 and 8 ECHR—which Dutch courts must apply and prioritise (articles 93 and 94 Gw )—clearly harbour that transformative potential. Yet, procedural requirements, such high degrees of individualisation of environmental harm, as well as the human/nature dichotomy perpetuated by human rights frameworks, have the effect of continuing to exclude non-humans from constitutional imaginary. Finally, unconstrained by legal or political hindrances, legal scholarship constitutes a significant transformative force. The emergence of rights of nature across the globe is a prime example of the productive interaction between academia, judiciaries and legislatures. A more comprehensive academic ambition is the crafting of geo-constitutional identities, founded on the recognition of the fragility and authority of non-human regulatory agency.

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10.1007/978-94-6265-779-3_13

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Floor Fleurke; Han Somsen. Law and the Environment: Towards a Geo-Constitutional Identity. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-779-3_13

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Floor Fleurke; Han Somsen. (2026). Law and the Environment: Towards a Geo-Constitutional Identity. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-779-3_13
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Floor Fleurke; Han Somsen. Law and the Environment: Towards a Geo-Constitutional Identity. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-779-3_13
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Floor Fleurke; Han Somsen. Law and the Environment: Towards a Geo-Constitutional Identity. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-779-3_13

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Tilburg University

Floor Fleurke

Han Somsen

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