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"Noah's Second Voyage: The Rights of Nature as Law" (PDF). Tulane Environmental Law Journal. 31. Kings College London Legal Clinic (January 2024). "A Rights of Nature Toolkit: How to Protect Rivers in England and Wales" (PDF). Nash, Roderick Frazier (1989). The Rights of Nature: A History of Environmental Ethics. U.S.: University of Wisconsin ...
Environmental law is the collection of laws, regulations, agreements and common law that governs how humans interact with their environment. [2] This includes environmental regulations; laws governing management of natural resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries; and related topics such as environmental impact assessments.
Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. In 2008, the people of Ecuador amended their Constitution to recognize the inherent rights of nature, or Pachamama.The new text arose in large part as a result of cosmologies of the indigenous rights movement and actions to protect the Amazon, consistent with the concept of sumak kawsay ("buen vivir" in Spanish, "good living" in English), or encapsulating a life ...
The laws listed below meet the following criteria: (1) they were passed by the United States Congress, and (2) pertain to (a) the regulation of the interaction of humans and the natural environment, or (b) the conservation and/or management of natural or historic resources.
The Basic Environmental Law is the basic structure of Japan's environmental policies replacing the Basic Law for Environmental Pollution Control and the Nature Conservation Law. The updated law aims to address "global environmental problems, urban pollution by everyday life, loss of accessible natural environment in urban areas and degrading ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Natural resources law" ... Air quality law; C. Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008; L.
Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008; Long title: A bill to authorize certain programs and activities in the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the Department of Energy, to implement further the Act approving the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, to amend the Compact of Free ...
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1803 established the principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources. Adopted on 14 December 1962 by the UN General Assembly , [ 1 ] resolution proclaims in particular that: