Essays about: "nature with legal personhood"

Found 3 essays containing the words nature with legal personhood.

  1. 1. Future land use and the pre-emption of conflicts

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, design och hållbar utveckling (2023-)

    Author : Åsa Lindh; [2022]
    Keywords : Land use; land use planning; national interests; nature with legal personhood; conflict management; conflict pre-emption; wind power; energy landscapes; indigenous knowledge; environmental science; environmental law; environmental ethics and jurisprudence; sustainability; innovation theory;

    Abstract : As the title presents, this thesis will explore the area of land use, and in this context, planning for managing potential conflicts that occur today and are likely to continue to arise in the future.  To assist with a potential solution, the concepts of ‘nature with legal person hood’, and ‘national interests’ (‘riksintressen’) falling under Swedish environmental law, will be the focus. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cats’ nine lives : European Union legislation on the trade of endangered animals and its effects on animal welfare

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Ida Aho; [2021]
    Keywords : EU regulations; animal welfare; animal law; wildlife trade; legal personhood; legal philosophy;

    Abstract : The issues raised in this thesis concern the adverse effects of EU's wildlife trade regulations, mainly the unequal treatment of captive and wild-born endangered animals. The nature of these regulations is analyzed from an animal law perspective. READ MORE

  4. 3. Testing the (legal) waters: interpreting the political representation of a river with rights in New Zealand : “let’s talk to the river, instead of talking about the river”

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Wouter Blankestijn; Anna Martin; [2018]
    Keywords : earth jurisprudence; rights of nature; political representation; ecocentrism; human-nature communication; river management; indigenous justice; environmental justice; communicative ethic; thematic analysis; New Zealand;

    Abstract : In 2017, after protracted litigation between Māori iwi (tribe) and the Crown, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa/New Zealand was granted the status of a ‘legal person’. The river is described as an indivisible and living whole, so-called Te Awa Tupua. READ MORE