Environmental Personhood: New Trajectories in Law

This book examines the increasingly widespread movement to recognise the environment as a legal person.

Several countries have now recognized that nature, or parts of nature, have juristic personhood. In this book, the concept of legal personhood and its incidents are interrogated with a view to determining whether this is, or could be, a positive contribution to modern environmental problems. Surveying historical and current positions on the juristic concept of legal personhood, the book en...