The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law: A Developing Relationship
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- doi:10.4337/9781035324408.00008
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- Yaffa Epstein
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- 2025
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- en
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A growing number of countries around the world now recognize some types of legal rights for nature. Some of these laws have resulted in positive outcomes for the environment, and others have sparked backlash, but the full impact of these laws has yet to become apparent. This chapter raises various questions on whether rights of nature laws have been, can be, or will be effective. Are rights of nature better suited to some types of legal systems than others? Are rights of nature compatible with ‘Western’ ontologies? Are rights of nature necessarily ecocentric, or are anthropocentric rights of nature laws possible or even desirable? Can or should nature have duties? How can the legal system deal with different time scales of humans and non-human nature? How useful is international comparison, and how viable is legal transplantation? And what is the relationship between rights of nature and traditional environmental law?
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Yaffa Epstein. The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law: A Developing Relationship. 2025. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035324408.00008
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- Yaffa Epstein. (2025). The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law: A Developing Relationship. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035324408.00008
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- Yaffa Epstein. The Rights of Nature and Environmental Law: A Developing Relationship. 2025. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035324408.00008
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