Constitutional Law, Ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects

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dc.contributor.authorMacpherson E
dc.contributor.authorTorres J
dc.contributor.authorClavijo Ospina F
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-04T00:46:46Z
dc.date.available2021-02-04T00:46:46Z
dc.date.issued2020en
dc.date.updated2020-11-17T09:09:22Z
dc.description.abstractThe recognition of rivers and related ecosystems as legal persons or subjects is an emerging mechanism in transnational practice available to governments in seeking more effective and collaborative natural resource management, sometimes at the insistence of indigenous peoples. This approach is developing particularly quickly in Colombia, where legal rights for rivers and ecosystems are grasping onto, and evolving out of, constitutional human rights protections. This enables the development of a new type of constitutionalism of nature. Yet legal rights for rivers may obscure the rights of indigenous peoples and their role in resource ownership and governance. We argue that the Colombian river cases serve as a caution to courts and legislatures elsewhere to be mindful, in devising ecosystem rights, of the complex and interrelated rights, interests and tenures of indigenous peoples and local communities.en
dc.identifier.citationMacpherson E, Torres J, Clavijo Ospina F (2020). Constitutional Law, Ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects. Transnational Environmental Law. 1-20.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1017/s204710252000014x
dc.identifier.issn2047-1025
dc.identifier.issn2047-1033
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/101603
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en
dc.rightsAll rights reserved unless otherwise stateden
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectColombiaen
dc.subjectecosystem rightsen
dc.subjectbiocultural rightsen
dc.subjectlegal personhooden
dc.subject.anzsrc1801 Lawen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::48 - Law and legal studies::4807 - Public law::480702 - Constitutional lawen
dc.subject.anzsrcFields of Research::48 - Law and legal studies::4804 - Law in context::480413 - Race, ethnicity and lawen
dc.titleConstitutional Law, Ecosystems and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjectsen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Law
uc.departmentSchool of Law
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