New book - The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future

[Craig Kauffman]

Dear Colleagues,

 

I’m pleased to announce that my new book (with Pamela Martin), The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future is now out an available through MIT Press who generously agreed to publish it open access on their website --  https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/politics-rights-nature -- (the paperback is available at Amazon for $35). As the title suggests, the book goes beyond moral, philosophical, and legal arguments about rights of nature and instead analyzes the politics behind the creation and implementation of laws recognizing ecosystems as rights-bearing subjects, as well as the how these laws are shaping the politics of sustainable development. For people interested in norms, the book analyzes the process through which new norms are constructed in practice.

Best,

Craig

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Craig M. Kauffman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Political Science Department

University of Oregon

Member, United Nations Expert Network on Harmony with Nature

Recent Publications: 

Craig Kauffman and Pamela Martin, The Politics of Rights of Nature: Strategies for Building a More Sustainable Future (MIT Press, 2021). 

Craig Kauffman, "Rights of Nature: Institutions, Law, and Policy for Sustainable Development," in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics. Sowers, VanDeveer, and Weinthal, eds. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Craig Kauffman. “Managing People for the Benefit of the Land: Practicing Earth Jurisprudence in Te Urewera, New Zealand.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Vol. 27, No. 3, 2020, p. 578-595.