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Digging Deeper: Why Constitutional Recognition of Nature’s Rights is Key to Solving Ghana’s Environmental Crisis

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Clé publique

doi:10.60129/jinces.v3i1.00525

Auteurs

Dickson Adom

Année déclarée

2025

Langue déclarée

en

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article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.707516+00:00

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2026-11-10T16:58:51.316796+00:00

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Institutions déclarées par la source

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

GH

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

This perspective paper draws upon the constitutional provisions concerning the rights of nature in Ecuador and Bolivia to offer nuanced recommendations for integrating the rights of nature into Ghana’s environmental governance legal framework. It characterizes the rights of nature as a transformative, 21st-century legal revolutionary approach within global legal environmental frameworks. The paper emphasizes the importance of adopting an integrated rights of nature paradigm that recognizes not only human rights but also the intrinsic rights of nature within economic and legal systems. Furthermore, it highlights the limitations of Ghana’s current constitutional framework, which predominantly emphasizes human rights in environmental governance, and advocates for the recognition of the rights of nature as an effective legal mechanism to address the nation’s ongoing environmental crises. The paper proposes specific constitutional provisions in Ghana that could serve as strategic entry points for mainstreaming the rights of nature, along with well-founded suggestions for their incorporation and reformulation. Ultimately, the paper argues that the integration of the rights of nature into Ghana’s constitution would foster a more holistic, morally equitable, inclusive, ethically considerate, and sustainable environmental legal framework. Such a reform would position Ghana alongside other nations committed to ecological justice and the protection of all living beings—human and non-human—promoting a mutually interdependent and harmonious relationship within ecosystems.

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OPENALEX

W4412396073

DOI

10.60129/jinces.v3i1.00525

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doi_________::616017ac94eee50e7f393d00a2e7528d

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GH

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OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.60129/jinces.v3i1.00525
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4412396073

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• openalex:w2767200912 · CITES
• Listening to Papatūānuku: a call to reform water law · CITES
• Constructing Rights of Nature Norms in the US, Ecuador, and New Zealand · CITES
• A rights revolution for nature · CITES
• The rights of nature and the human right to nature: an overview of the European legal system and challenges for the ecological transition · CITES
• Rights of Nature · CITES

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