Understanding Rights of Nature
Project details
The future of the Rights of Nature: An interdisciplinary scoping analysis, project funded by the UK Arts and Humanties Research Council (AHRC)
- Coordinator: Jeremie Gilbert, Roehampton University
- Partners: Roehampton University, MLU, Strathclye University, Cranfield University
- Researcher: Ilkhom Soliev
- Duration: 2020 - 2022
Keywords: rights of nature, values of nature, innovative governance, representation of nature, interdisciplinary research
About the project
This research project explores the potential of the rights of nature, considering it from an interdisciplinary perspective, where people from various disciplines share their knowledge to help facilitate a more balanced relationship between humans and nature to address the ecological crisis. Our research highlights that despite its promising role to offer a truly transformative approach to our relationship with the environment, academic research and funding have yet to fully engage with this emerging field of research. Research projects still have largely fragmented and disciplinary approaches despite the tasks that require transcending the disciplines. Although new research projects have begun to explore the anthropological and political aspects of RoN focusing on specific case studies outside of Europe, further transdisciplinary research integrating environmental and social sciences is needed particularly to understand to what extent RoN can be useful and operationalised in the European context.
Related publication:
- Gilbert, J., Soliev, I., Robertson, A., Vermeylen, S., Williams, N.W., Grabowski, R.C. (2023). Understanding the Rights of Nature: working together across and beyond disciplines. Human Ecology 51: 363–377, doi/URL .
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