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    Voice, power and legitimacy: the role of the legal person in river management in New Zealand, Chile and Australia (2018)

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    https://hdl.handle.net/10092/101521
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    http://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2018.1552545
    
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    Informa UK Limited
    ISSN
    1324-1583
    2204-227X
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    en
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    O'Donnell E, Macpherson EJshow all
    Abstract

    © 2018, © 2018 Engineers Australia. In 2017, rivers in New Zealand, India and Colombia received legal rights and were granted the status of legal persons. The increased legal powers, often a result of groundbreaking agreements or settlements with Indigenous peoples, may improve environmental protection and river management, but they can also challenge the legitimacy of laws and regulations that protect the rivers. In this paper, we compare the new legal rights with two long-standing uses of legal personality in river management, to explore the effects of legal personality in terms of environmental resource management. We argue that governments must ensure that they get the right balance between giving rivers a voice (and the power to be heard), and creating collaborative governance arrangements that strengthen and maintain community support overtime.

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    O'Donnell E, Macpherson EJ (2018). Voice, power and legitimacy: the role of the legal person in river management in New Zealand, Chile and Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources. 23(1). 1-10.
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    Keywords
    Legal personality; river; legitimacy; water resource management
    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    48 - Law and legal studies::4802 - Environmental and resources law::480203 - Environmental law
    41 - Environmental sciences::4104 - Environmental management::410406 - Natural resource management
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651
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