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Anna Grear on the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013
Anna Grear is Associate Professor in Law at University of Waikato, New Zealand. The Dahrendorf Symposium 2013 "Changing the European Debate: Focus on Climate Change" organised by the Hertie School of Governance, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Stiftung Mercator will take place on November 14 and 15 in Berlin.
Human Rights and New Horizons? Thoughts toward a New Juridical Ontology
Human Rights and “Humanity” Human rights have long been haunted with questions concerning the constitution of “the human” that makes up their privileged “species category.” In the twenty-first century, such questions take on new and urgent dimensions. Arguments concerning the failure of human rights to represent the human being qua human being have been steadily mounting under intense pressure from critical human rights positions.
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Welcome... Our InnerSelf welcomes your inner self. This is the early-bird version of the newsletter/new issue of InnerSelf. The complete version will be online, and emailed to subscribers, late Sunday afternoon. Happy reading! Please scroll down for the featured articles in this new issue of InnerSelf, and also the recap of all the articles that were added to the website during the week. Wishing you enjoyable insightful reading, and of course a wonder-full, joy-full, and loving week. Marie T.
Is It Wrong To Protect Nature With Human Style Rights?
The protected Cathedral Grove, British Columbia, Canada. Photo courtesy Sang Trinh/Flickr How can the law account for the value of complex, nonhuman entities such as rivers, lakes, forests and ecosystems? At a time of runaway climate change, when the Earth’s biosphere is on the brink of collapse and species extinctions are accelerating, this has become a vital question.
It’s Wrongheaded to Protect Nature With Human-Style Rights
How can the law account for the value of complex, nonhuman entities such as rivers, lakes, forests and ecosystems? At a time of runaway climate change, when the Earth’s biosphere is on the brink of collapse and species extinctions are accelerating, this has become a vital question. Some theorists argue that there’s a clear historical precedent for what we should do, arising from the struggle for universal human rights.
It’s wrongheaded to protect nature with human-style rights – Anna Grear | Aeon Ideas
The protected Cathedral Grove, British Columbia, Canada. Photo courtesy Sang Trinh/Flickr Anna Grear is professor of law at Cardiff University, and the founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. She is the author of Redirecting Human Rights: Facing the Challenge of Corporate Legal Humanity (2010). She lives in Wales.
Why Fracking Is a Symptom of the Eco-Destructive Neoliberal Order—and a Serious Human Rights Issue
Why Fracking Is a Symptom of the Eco-Destructive Neoliberal Order—and a Serious Human Rights Issue [Editor's note: This article was originally published by the Center for Humans and Nature as part of their Questions for a Resilient Future series: Does fracking violate human rights? To read more responses to this question and to share your thoughts, click here.] “Which human rights?�
Indigenous peoples and REDD+ safeguards: rights as resistance or as disciplinary inclusion in the green economy?
This article critically evaluates the discourses concerning the social impacts of Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) carbon offset schemes on people living in and around forest areas. In particular, the article critically evaluates two of the strategies proposed to mitigate potential social risks from REDD+ and to promote benefits to forest peoples and indigenous peoples: tenure reform and processes of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC).
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