CONSERVATION AND LAW Science and the legal rights of nature

• 成果类型: Review
• 署名作者: Epstein, Yaffa; Ellison, Aaron M.; Echeverria, Hugo; Abbott, Jessica K.
• 署名单位: Uppsala University; Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS); Harvard University; Universidad Hemisferios; Lund University
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-9273
• DOI: 10.1126/science.adf4155
• 发表日期: 2023-05-19
• 页码: 704-+
• 关键词: water

摘要

Epstein1,2*, Ellison3,4, Hugo Echeverria5, We review the use of science by lawmakers and courts in implementing or rejecting legal rights for nature in Ecuador, India, the United States, and other jurisdictions where some type of rights of nature have been recognized in the legal system. We then use the right to evolve to exemplify how interdisciplinary work can (i) help courts effectively define what this right might entail; (ii) inform how might be applied in different circumstances; and (iii) provide a template for how scientists and legal scholars can generate the interdisciplinary scholarship necessary to understand and implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws, and environmental law more generally. We conclude by pointing to what further research is needed to understand and effectively implement the growing body of rights-of-nature laws.