Final Report Realizing Rights of Nature: : Sustaining Developmentand Democracy
Year: 2026
Type: report
Abstract: This report explains the project questions, results, contributions, and lessons learned of the Formas-funded project Realizing Rights of Na-ture: Sustaining Development and Democracy. The project investi-gated claims about nature’s rights which collectively underscore a central uncertainty: what would it mean for a liberal representative democracy to recognize nature’s rights? The report notes its conclu-sions, which suggest that nature’s rights is not necessarily incompati-ble with this form of government. The project’s contributions were to demystify nature’s rights by placing this legal strategy in a compara-tive and historical perspective, to focus attention on the relationship of nature’s rights to the national interest, and the need to account for urban nature when thinking about the potential of nature’s rights.
Authors: Epstein, Seth, Enkvist, Victoria
Language: English
Topic: Environmental law and policy
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7164449345