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Ecological Rights

Ecological Rights is a normative framework within environmental jurisprudence that establishes the intrinsic rights of ecosystems to exist, persist, regenerate, and evolve, thereby extending legal personhood and protection to natural systems independent of their utility to humans.

118

Publications

7.3K

Citations

205

Authors

131

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

48

Variants

Rights Of Nature

Parents

Publications

118

Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects

Christopher D. Stone · Stanford Law Review · 1974 · 654 citations

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The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics

Kenneth A. Erickson, Roderick Nash · Geographical Review · 1990 · 580 citations

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The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance

Julie Guthman · Antipode · 2007 · 448 citations

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The rights of nature: a history of environmental ethics

Choice Reviews Online · 1989 · 207 citations

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Between environmental and ecological democracy: theory and practice at the democracy-environment nexus

Jonathan Pickering, Karin Bäckstrand, David Schlosberg · Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning · 2020 · 206 citations · Full text

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Authors

205

  1. EM
    Elizabeth Macpherson

    University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    3 publications · 126 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. PL
    Pamela L. Martin

    Coastal Carolina University, United States

    2 publications · 217 citations

    2

    h-index

  3. JP
    Jason Prior

    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    2 publications · 24 citations

    2

    h-index

  4. RN
    Roderick Nash

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    2 publications · 686 citations

    2

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  5. EF
    Erin Fitz‐Henry

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    2 publications · 54 citations

    2

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Institutions

131

  1. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    335 citations

  2. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    262 citations

  3. University of Oregon

    Eugene, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    292 citations

  4. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    217 citations

  5. University of Canberra

    Canberra, Australia

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    355 citations

  6. University of Technology Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    44 citations

  7. Conway School of Landscape Design

    Conway, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    217 citations

  8. IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

    Delft, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    84 citations

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Venues

  1. Transnational Environmental Law

    TEL · 7 publications · 564 citations

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  2. Environmental Politics

    4 publications · 339 citations

    4

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  3. Journal of Environmental Law

    4 publications · 212 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

    3 publications · 217 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. Land Use Policy

    3 publications · 258 citations

    3

    h-index

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