Legal Personhood For Nature Success Story Of Indigenous Advocacy And Conservation Movements

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10.2991/978-2-38476-192-0_11How to use a DOI?

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Legal Personhood; Nature; Indigenous Advocacy; Conservation Movement

Abstract

Our sustenance on this planet depends on the nature, to an extent that if any component of the nature is disturbed, the whole symbiotic relationship with which all the life form on this planet mutually coexist get imbalanced leading to a disturbance in the whole ecosystem which is detrimental for the sustenance of any life in this planet. Being the higher form of life, it is pertinent for us to develop such mechanism which will ensure not only the conservation and preservation of the various components of the biodiversity but also will promote sustainable development, without exhausting our biological, mineral and other resources or keeping them at stake for achieving the development. This mechanism must will be in conformity with not only the UN’s sustainable goals but also will go in line with the chief objectives of Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), one of its first and own kind of International legal framework which mandates the member countries to come up with such domestic legal framework in their own countries which will ensure, conservation & preservation of biological/genetic resources, will promote sustainable development and will ensure a fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising out of the commercial exploitation of the biological/ genetic resources between/among the stake holders involved in the process of generation of such benefits. In this context the discussion on the concept of Legal Personhood for Nature which has been the outcome of the initiatives like Indigenous Advocacy and Conservation Movements, has proved to be substantially path-breaking. In the current research the researchers aim at accessing the scope and extent of reach out of such Initiatives by analyzing some specific case studies around the world where the Legal Personhood for Nature has been ascertained marking the beginning of a new discussion in the jurisprudence, and how the conservation movement in India has remarkably attempted at advocating for cause of our farmer communities.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Parimita Dash
AU  - Debmita Mondal
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/31
TI  - Legal Personhood For Nature Success Story Of Indigenous Advocacy And Conservation Movements
BT  - Proceedings of the World Anthropology Congress, 2023 (WAC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 106
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-192-0_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-192-0_11
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