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Understanding the Rights of Nature: A Critical Introduction, by Mihnea Tănăsescu Transcript Verlag, 2022, 168 pp, €40 pb, open access ebk ISBN 9783837654318 pb, 9783839454312 ebk (open access) - The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future, by Craig M. Kauffman and Pamela L. Martin The MIT Press, 2021, 290 pp, $35 pb, open access ebk ISBN 9780262542920 pb, 9780262366601 ebk (open access)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2022

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Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris (France) and Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Colombia)
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , July 2022 , pp. 441 - 445
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References

1 Stone, C., ‘Should Trees Have Standing: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects’ (1972) 45 Southern California Law Review, pp. 450–501Google Scholar.

2 Borough Council of Tamaqua Borough, PA, United States (US), Tamaqua Borough Sewage Sludge Ordinance, Ordinance No. 612, 19 Sept. 2006 (‘Borough residents, natural communities, and ecosystems shall be considered to be “persons” for purposes of the enforcement of the civil rights of those residents, natural communities, and ecosystems’).

3 UN General Assembly, ‘Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’, 25 Sept. 2015, UN Doc. A/RES/70/1.

4 ‘Earth jurisprudence’ argues that there is a ‘web of life’ that connects ‘[a]ll the elements of Nature, including humans’: Kauffman & Martin (p. 4).

5 Tănăsescu (p. 16).