UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Environmental Rights Between Constitutional Law and Local Context: Reflections on a Moving Target

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Clé publique

doi:10.1017/glj.2022.68

Auteurs

Dirk Hanschel · Mario G. Aguilera · Bayar Dashpurev · Abduletif Kedir Idris

Année déclarée

2022

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.661978+00:00

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2026-11-09T19:15:44.539216+00:00

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Institutions déclarées par la source

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

DE

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Abstract Environmental rights such as the right to a sound environment and rights of nature, while playing an increasingly important role in global environmental governance and protection, frequently do not correspond to articulations of fundamental experiences of injustice by communities particularly affected by serious environmental degradation caused by, for example, extractive activities or major infrastructure projects. We present three empirically grounded case studies that employ concepts and methods from anthropology to demonstrate this. The work is still in progress, but sufficiently well advanced to present some findings. Our ethnographic research in Ethiopia and Mongolia reveals that vulnerable local communities take recourse to constitutional environmental rights far less often than expected. The reasons for this range from rule-of-law issues to local perceptions of vulnerability and relevant norms. Conversely, where environmental rights are demanded or claimed at the local level, they are often not translated adequately into the law of the state. Our case study on Ecuador, where rights of nature as a specific type of environmental rights have been included in the constitution, shows that transfers from local practice, while potentially having a transformative effect, may lead to conceptual selectivity, ambiguity, lack of clarity, and overlaps with existing state norms and, hence, redundancies. Environmental rights are, therefore, a moving target whose concrete added value hinges on context—as methods of law and anthropology serve to illustrate.

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OPENALEX

W4297369408

DOI

10.1017/glj.2022.68

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EC · ET

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OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2022.68
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4297369408

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• Building an international movement for Rights of Nature · CITES
• The politics of Rights of Nature: strategies for building a more sustainable future · CITES
• openalex:w4283805863 · CITES

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