Rights of nature or Earth rights is a legal and jurisprudential theory that describes inherent rights as associated with ecosystems and species, similar...

Rights of nature law is the codification and other implementations of the legal and jurisprudential theory of the rights of nature. This legal school of...

of codified Rights of Nature and to inform a more clarified content to those rights. Articles 10 and Chapter 7, Articles 71–74 of the Ecuadorian Constitution...

development and the rights of nature, both aimed at addressing anthropogenic environmental crises. In 2009, the United Nations created a program of the same name...

animal rights and human–animal relationships.[citation needed] For some the basis of animal rights is in religion or animal worship (or in general nature worship)...

rights of nature. The country's name means "Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish official name, República del Ecuador (lit. "Republic of the...

inherent rights, conferred not by act of legislation but by "God, nature, or reason". Natural law theory can also refer to "theories of ethics, theories of politics...

state of society by establishing a nation-state?". In some versions of social contract theory, there are freedoms, but no rights in the state of nature; and...

such as rivers. Environmental personhood, which assigns nature (or aspects of it) certain rights, concurrently provides a means to individuals or groups...

distinguish two types of rights, natural rights and legal rights. Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture...