Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Section I Concepts and Overviews
  • 1. Introduction: Rights of Nature, Sacred Lands and Sustainability in the Western Tradition / Cameron La Toilette
  • 2. Defending the Tree of Life: The Ethical Justification for the Rights of Nature in a Theory of Justice / Kathryn Anne Gwiazdon
  • 3. Rights of Nature: Myth, Films, Laws and the Future / Eugen Cadaru
  • 4. Nature's Rights in Permaculture / W. D. Scott Pittman
  • Section II Struggle for Sustainability and the Rights of Nature
  • 5. Kiribati and Climate Change / His Eminence Anote Tong
  • 6. `When God Put Daylight on Earth We Had One Voice' Kwakwaka'wakw Perspectives on Sustainability and the Rights of Nature / Clan Chief Kwaxsistalla Adam Dick
  • 7. Environmental Sustainability: The Case of Bhutan / Dechen Lham
  • 8. Restoration of the Caledonian Forest and the Rights of Nature / Alan Watson Featherstone
  • 9. Significance of the Stewardship Ethic of the Indigenous Peoples of Nigeria's Niger Delta Region on Biodiversity Conservation / Ngozi F. Unuigbe
  • 10. German Energiewende: A Way to Sustainable Societies? / Dani Fossl
  • 11. Seasonally Flooded Savannas of South America: Sustainability and the Cattle-Wildlife Mosaic / Rafael Hoogesteijn
  • 12. Ocean Rights: The Baltic Sea and World Ocean Health / Michelle Bender
  • Section III Rights of Nature in the Law
  • 13. River Is Born: New Zealand Confers Legal Personhood on the Whanganui River to Protect It and Its Native People / Christopher Finlayson
  • 14. Rights of Nature in Ecuador: An Overview of the New Environmental Paradigm / Francisco Jose Bustamante Romo Leroux
  • 15. Godavari Marble Case and Rights of Nature Discourse in Nepal / Jony Mainaly
  • 16. Nature's Rights: Why the European Union Needs a Paradigm Shift in Law to Achieve Its 2050 Vision / Mumta Ho
  • 17. Nature's Rights through Lawmaking in the United States / Michelle Amelia Newman
  • 18. Experiment with Rights of Nature in India / Tarini Mehta
  • 19. Caring for Country and Rights of Nature in Australia: A Conversation between Earth Jurisprudence and Aboriginal Law and Ethics / Michelle Moloney
  • 20. Conclusion: Nature's Laws of Reciprocity / Chris Maser.