Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice (Social Environmental Sustainability)

This book provides practictioners from diverse cultures around the world the opportunity to describe their own projects, successes, and challenges in moving toward a legal personhood for Nature. It includes contributions from Nepal, New Zealand, U.S. Native American cultures, and Scotland, amongst others, by practitioners working on projects that can be integrated into a Rights of Nature framework. The authors also tackle required changes to shift the paradigm such as thinking of Nature in a sacred manner, questioning Nature's rights versus human rights, conceptualization of restoration, and the removal of a large-scale energy infrastructure--

• | Author: Cameron La Follette, Chris Maser
• | Publisher: CRC Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 24, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 436 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138584517
• | ISBN-13: 9781138584518