Environmental Rights

• Symposium
• Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Rechte Ohne Rechtssubjektivität?

26.03.2025

René Kuppe

Die Rechte der Natur finden weltweit zunehmend Eingang in Gerichtsverfahren. So kommt es, dass am 15. März 2024 auch erstmals vor einem peruanischen Gericht die Rechte eines Flusses und die...

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• Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Antarktis und Amazonas als internationale Rechtssubjekte

27.02.2025

Helen Arling

Rechte und Rechtssubjektivität von Ökosystemen oder der Natur als Ganzes sind mittlerweile Teil von Rechtsordnungen weltweit. Über das nationale Recht hinaus fordern Rechtswissenschaftler:innen und Aktivist:innen nunmehr auch die Anerkennung von...

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• Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

Rights of Nature Through the History of Problematizations

26.02.2025

Nils Richterich

In 2022, the Spanish saltwater lagoon Mar Menor became the first ecosystem in Europe to be granted rights of nature. This widely celebrated success, which allows this ecosystem the “right...

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• Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

A Ring of Hope

25.02.2025

Daniela Bañuelos Hinojos

The text examines the current environmental challenges threatening the cenotes within the ‘Ring of Cenotes’ natural reserve in Yucatán State, Mexico. It briefly analyzes a case involving a large-scale pig...

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• Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

The Struggles of Rights of Nature

24.02.2025

Elena Ewering Andreas Gutmann Janina Reimann Tore Vetter

Social movements have always played a crucial role in determining the trajectory of world history. Today, all over the world, various actors of civil society demand for RoN). Ecuador’s pioneering...

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• Article

International Rights of Nature

14.12.2023

Helen Arling

Rights of nature have experienced a major upswing in recent years (for an overview of legal developments, see here). Starting with a local ordinance in the US state of Pennsylvania...

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• Media

“Ms. Mar Menor”: How Rights of Nature Entered Into Europe

21.11.2022

Mario Delgado

Since 2008, when the Ecuadorian Constitution recognised and guaranteed the rights of nature, various countries have included this set of rights within their legal national framework in different ways, e.g....

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