106 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
106 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the increasingly widespread movement to recognise the environment as a legal person.
Several countries have now recognized that nature, or parts of nature, have juristic personhood. In this book, the concept of legal personhood and its incidents are interrogated with a view to determining whether this is, or could be, a positive contribution to modern environmental problems.... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The idea of the legal person 3. Case studies: Modern incidents of environmental personhood 4. Themes and contradictions 4. Conclusions
Biography
Francine Rochford is Associate Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
