Rights of Nature articles:
English
If Nature Had Rights, Cormac Cullinan
Does Nature Have Rights? is a thought-provoking collection of essays presenting a compelling new paradigm – a paradigm based on the premise that nature does have rights and it is time that we as a global society recognize and honor those rights.
Rights-Based Protection for Pachamama, Mari Margil – CELDF
What are Rights, and how can Nature “have” Rights?, Ben Price – CELDF
Comments on The Commons, Ben Price – CELDF
An Introduction to Earth Jurisprudence: Guiding Principles and Wild Law Possibilities - Voices for Earth Jurisprudence from the Center for Earth Jurisprudence
Includes Essays from Cormac Cullinan, Gaia Foundation & UK Environmental Law Association, Ecology Action et. al, Judith Koons, and Aldo Leopold.
Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Future Oil Disasters, Brandon Keim
From The Rights of Nature: The Case for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth:
Vision: How to Change Our Laws So That Corporations Don’t Trump Communities Our environmental laws and regulations, rather than put in place protections for the environment, instead seem to be written to exploit it. Here’s what can we do about it. by Shannon Biggs and Mari Margil on AlterNet.
Vision: Nature Needs Rights — Why Our Human-Centric Model Will Doom Us and the Rest of the Planet We have built our economic and development policies based on a human-centric model and assumed that nature would never fail to provide or that technology would save us. By Maude Barlow on AlterNet.
Earth Rights – A Theory, Peter Burdon
The Rights of Nature – Reconsidered, Peter Burdon
Wildlaw Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence, Peter Burdon
Recogniting Rights for Nature in the Ecuadorian Constitution, Fundacion Pachamama
Rights of Mother Earth - CUNY Graduate Center live blog panel Earth Day 2011
Earth Jurisprudence and Wild Law Resources recommended by Griffith University for Wild Law 2011 Earth Jurisprudence: Building Theory and Practice – Australia’s 3rd Wild Law Conference September 2011.
Español
Reconocimiento de los Derechos de la Naturaleza Ecuador, Fundacion Pachamama
La naturaleza no es muda, Eduardo Galeano
Derechos de la Pachamama, Mario Melo
Los derechos de la naturaleza en la Constitución ecuatoriana, Mario Melo
La natureleza como sujeto de derechos símbolo o realidad jurídica, Ricardo Crespo
El derecho de la naturaleza, Ramiro Avila
El Sujeto Naturaleza, Diana Murcia
Articles regarding the Universal Declaration of Rights of Nature:
Toward the Universal Declaration of Rights of Nature, Alberto Acosta
Legal Case for Universal Declaration, Cormac Cullinan
Argumentos jurídicos para la Declaración Universal, Cormac Cullinan
Hacia la Declaración Universal de los Derechos de la Naturaleza, Alberto Acosta
Articles written during Ecuador’s Constitutional Assembly period pushing for the recognitions of rights of nature:
(see Ecuador Rights of Nature section for more information)
The Implementation of Rights for Nature, Thomas Linzey 08
Cormac Cullinan, Memo constitutional nature rights in Ecuador Evo Morales is the leader who put the word out to the world about Rights of Nature, by recognizing April 22 as the Rights of Mother Earth Day in United Nations, through the organization of the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth and his multiple speeches about the topic (learn more in Bolivia’s experience section):
Anteproyecto de Ley de Madre Tierra Bolivia
La Naturaleza como sujeto de derechos, Alberto Acosta 08
De Montecristi a Cochabamba, Mario Melo
United Nations Nature Reports:
Governing People for Earth – The Challenge of the 21st Century (address by Cormac Cullinan to the United Nations General Assembly Interactive Dialogue on living in harmony with Nature, Wednesday 20 April 2011)
To view a Webcast of the address to the UN visit UN General Assembly Dialogue on Harmony with Nature, April 20, 2011
Harmony with Nature, United Nation’s Report
Study on the need to recognize and respect the rights of nature, United Nations
