UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

The (Human) Rights of Nature: A Comparative Study of Emerging Legal Rights for Rivers and Lakes in the United States of America and Mexico

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.31235/osf.io/e5npr

Auteurs

Elizabeth Macpherson

Année déclarée

2021

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

preprint

Première détection

2026-11-09T19:04:47.523003+00:00

Dernière observation des métadonnées

2026-11-10T16:58:51.488431+00:00

Dernière vérification HTTP

Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

University of Canterbury

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

NZ

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

An international consensus of scientific experts is now demanding "immediate action" in response to the environmental, climate, and biodiversity crises. But are our legal and regulatory frameworks equipped to respond to the rapid pace of environmental degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change? What incidence is there, transnationally, of laws that seek to protect the Earth from the humans that inhabit it? In the past few decades, there is a growing social, legal, and political movement towards more ecocentric regulation of the planet, where new laws and institutions seek to protect natural resources for their own intrinsic value. In this paper, I consider recent efforts to protect the rights of rivers in the U.S. and Mexico, which are novel and emerging attempts to discover new pathways for enhanced protection of vulnerable waterways. These attempts are being pragmatically driven from the bottom up to the highest levels of the legislature or judiciary as local communities (and sometimes Indigenous Peoples) become increasingly frustrated with apathetic and complacent governmental responses to environmental challenges, using whatever legal tools and processes are available to them. However, rather than an Earth-centred revolution, efforts to protect the rights of nature are distinctly "human"; as communities appeal to human rights laws, and their enhanced constitutional status, to upset the status quo. There are important lessons to be learned from these experiences in other countries in terms of the ability to entrench transformative environmental protections via constitutional hierarchies and the potential for the rights and interests of humans to be both an enabler of, as well as a threat to, nature's rights.

Identifiants

DOI

10.31235/osf.io/e5npr

OPENALEX

W4210884325

OPENAIRE

doi_dedup___::3cf8aa9cb2372a445f68f571f4cbf515

Repères documentaires

Famille documentaire

Working paper

Types déclarés par les sources

Article · preprint

Juridictions étudiées — sources explicites

MX · US

Entités naturelles mentionnées

Fleuve / rivière · Lac

Les mentions d’entités ne constituent pas une preuve de reconnaissance juridique. La juridiction étudiée est distincte du pays d’affiliation des auteurs.

Sources

OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/e5npr
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4210884325

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