Jessica Den Outer

The Forest Fights Back (eBook, ePUB)

A Global Movement for the Rights of Nature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, ecosystems are collapsing, and the planet's future hangs in the balance. For centuries, our legal systems have treated nature as something to be owned and exploited, but a bold new movement is challenging this paradigm.

In The Forest Fights Back, Jessica den Outer explores a groundbreaking global movementRights of Naturetaking on the legal system to recognise the rights of rivers, forests, and mountains to exist, flourish, and sustain their ecological balance. From the fight for the Whanganui River in New Zealand to the battle for Spain's Mar Menor lagoon, den Outer highlights the campaigns led by grassroots communities, telling stories of determination and legal ingenuity.

This movement goes beyond law - it represents a cultural shift that could reshape how we live, think, co-exist and advocate for nature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780745351490
• Artikelnr.: 73547422

Autorenporträt

Jessica den Outer is an expert in environmental law who advocates globally for the Rights of Nature. Since 2017, she's been consulted and has spoken for institutions like the UN and Harvard. She founded the NGO 'Stichting Rechten van de Natuur' and has received numerous awards for her pioneering work.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Professor Stone and the birth of the Rights of Nature
2. People and ecosystems protected from polluters in Pennsylvania
3. Water bodies appear before judges in Florida
4. A river with legal personality in Aotearoa/New Zealand
5. A difficult struggle for sacred rivers in India
6. The Colombian Amazon rainforest has a right to protection
7. Rights of Mother Earth in the Constitution of Ecuador
8. Spain is leading the way in Europe with rights for a lagoon
9. Love Our Ouse: campaigning for river rights in England
10. Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come
11. Join the movement
Acknowledgements
Notes
Further reading
Index