Could rights of nature laws help sustainable agriculture? sheepcentral.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sheepcentral.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bestowing the natural world with the same legal rights as humans is a strategy that is gaining traction around the world for its capacity to provide better protection against degradation. If the envi
In 2006, a local government council in Pennsylvania concerned about sewage sludge dumping enacted the Western legal system’s first formal “rights of nature” instrument. Today, numerous countries have laws recognizing specific rights or even legal personhood for nature. As legal expert Alice Bleby explains, this new perspective arises from a wide range of contexts and plays out