Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press May 2017). The first book laid out the international precursors for the Rights of Nature doctrine and described the changes required to create a Rights of Nature framework that supports Nature in a sustainable relationship rather than as an exploited resource. This follow-up work provides practitioners from diverse cultures around the world an opportunity to describe their own projects successes and challenges in moving toward a legal personhood for Nature. It includes contributions from Nepal New Zealand Canadian Native American cultures Kiribati the United States 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 reorienting Nature’s rights and human rights the conceptualization of restoration and the removal of large-scale energy infrastructure.