The global ecological crisis is now well documented. 1 Throughout the twentieth century, we
have seen unprecedented deforestation, biodiversity loss, air and water pollution and the …

Wild Law is an emerging theory of earth-centred law and governance that is stimulating a
burgeoning field of academic literature and grassroots activism. While it draws broadly on …

Since the early 2000s, the idea of “rights” for nature has gained increasing traction among
environmental activists throughout the Americas. Drawing on a series of recent legal cases …

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice is the much-needed complementary
volume to Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction (CRC Press, May 2017) …

This book examines the relationship between anthropocentrism–the idea that human beings
are socially and politically at the centre of the cosmos–and international law. International …

Abstract In his 2011 Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, Rob Nixon argues
that the 'slow violence'of environmental collapse-the too often 'invisible'violence that unfolds …

The past 10 years have witnessed a flourishing of interdisciplinary research across the
social sciences that aims to better theorize the relationships between structural racism and …

Around the world, people are working hard to protect their local communities and local
ecosystems from the destructive impacts of excessive industrial developments. One strategy …

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Despite the fact that Ecuador has arguably the most biocentric constitution in the world,
deepening national investment in extractive development projects has left communities on …