Introduction; Nature’s Laws of Reciprocity; Rights of Nature – The Emerging Legal Paradigm; Other International Voices for the Rights of Nature; Relationship: The Basis for Rights of Nature; Precursors to the Rights of Nature; International Steps Towards the Rights of Nature; Rights of Nature Concepts and Issues; The Problem of Technology; Corporations and the Rights of Nature; Land; Water; Air and Climate; Food Supply; Sources of Energy; Mining and Drilling; International Trade: Moving Goods and People; Conclusion: Rights of Nature and Our Responsibility.
Cameron La Follette has a law degree from Columbia University School of Law, a Masters in Psychology from New York University, and a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the University of Oregon. Her initial environmental activism (1978-1982) was with Oregon nonprofit organizations that focused on preserving ancient forests on Federal public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management to protect salmon habitat, clean drinking water, and forest ecosystems. She served on the Salem, OR, Planning Commission for three years (2002-05) applying the City of Salem’s land use and zoning ordinances to many situations ranging from residential housing to industrial and commercial properties. As Director of a nonprofit project (2004-2006), she focused on bringing people together to collaborate on coastal environmental problems. Since 2010, she has been Executive Director of an environmental and land use activist nonprofit that focuses on protecting the natural resources of the Oregon coast, working with residents to oppose ill-advised land use projects, and helping maintain livable coastal communities.
Chris Maser spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in forest, shrub steppe, subarctic, desert, coastal, and agricultural settings. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, he was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt, (1963-1964) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967), where he participated in a study of tick-borne diseases for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt. He conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. He was a research ecologist with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years--the first seven (1974-1981) studying the biophysical relationships in rangelands in southeastern Oregon and
"This new book provides ecological, historical, legal, and
contextual information about the wide range of seemingly
insurmountable challenges we face around the planet. Thankfully,
along with in-depth analyses of the problems and causes, the
recommended solutions presented seem attainable. The lists of
specific recommendations for management, restoration, research, and
governance, all emphasize justice. Indeed, The Rights of Nature, as
an overarching framework for choice-making at all levels of
governance, from personal to global, is a greatly needed
manifesto."
—Judith Ann Wait, Washington State University, Vancouver,
Washington, USA"This wonderful book proposes a new framing that
provides some questions that we need to ask – and some answers that
may be the ones we need. One need not subscribe to every argument
they offer in this book. But one cannot read this book without
opening one’s eyes to new insights and new possibilities."
—John E. Bonine, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA"As an
avid reader, now in my seventies, I have found that only about
twice a decade a book comes along that challenges the foundation of
what I know and provokes me to think afresh. The Rights of Nature
is such a book. La Follette and Maser have used the lens of systems
theory to capture the history, ecology, geography, technologies,
laws, and politics, as well as challenges and solutions, to the
relationships of people to the planet. The book consolidates the
complex dimensions of human and natural systems to support a
paradigm shift, which embeds the Rights of Nature in national and
state constitutions, to create the essential reciprocity between
people and the planet."
—Thomas J. Gallagher, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska,
USA"We can no longer sit back and expect change to happen. As the
living citizens of Earth, it is our duty to protect our home planet
for our posterity and for all living creatures. Cameron La Follette
and Chris Maser’s thinking can complement a public trust approach
in the campaign for stewardship, not destruction, of our Earth. A
rights of nature approach can lead society towards a new ethic, one
calling for restraint and harmony with the natural world we rely
on—so that all species, not just humans, can flourish."
—Mary Wood, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA"In
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction, La
Follette and Maser dramatically outline what is at stake if we
continue current environmental policies and what approaches are
necessary to improve the sustainability of our global
lifeboat."
— Timothy D. Schowalter, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, USA"Sustainability And The Rights Of Nature: An
Introduction may be Chris Maser’s most ambitious work. In
collaboration with attorney Cameron La Follette, the book makes an
impassioned and compelling case for the premise that humankind
cannot flourish, or perhaps even survive, unless we recognize the
primacy of the natural world within which our produced world of
goods and artifacts is embedded. Cameron La Follette contributes
the vital legal background that allows the book to demonstrate that
the task of elevating the Rights of Nature must ultimately be a
clear-eyed and practical task that recruits our formal legal
systems to the effort. This rich and carefully crafted work makes
an impressive and ultimately optimistic contribution to the
creation of a humble, but satisfying, human presence on our one and
only home planet."
—C. Russell Beaton, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA
"This new book provides ecological, historical, legal, and
contextual information about the wide range of seemingly
insurmountable challenges we face around the planet. Thankfully,
along with in-depth analyses of the problems and causes, the
recommended solutions presented seem attainable. The lists of
specific recommendations for management, restoration, research, and
governance, all emphasize justice. Indeed, The Rights of Nature, as
an overarching framework for choice-making at all levels of
governance, from personal to global, is a greatly needed
manifesto."
—Judith Ann Wait, Washington State University, Vancouver,
Washington, USA"This wonderful book proposes a new framing that
provides some questions that we need to ask – and some answers that
may be the ones we need. One need not subscribe to every argument
they offer in this book. But one cannot read this book without
opening one’s eyes to new insights and new possibilities."
—John E. Bonine, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA"As an
avid reader, now in my seventies, I have found that only about
twice a decade a book comes along that challenges the foundation of
what I know and provokes me to think afresh. The Rights of Nature
is such a book. La Follette and Maser have used the lens of systems
theory to capture the history, ecology, geography, technologies,
laws, and politics, as well as challenges and solutions, to the
relationships of people to the planet. The book consolidates the
complex dimensions of human and natural systems to support a
paradigm shift, which embeds the Rights of Nature in national and
state constitutions, to create the essential reciprocity between
people and the planet."
—Thomas J. Gallagher, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska,
USA"We can no longer sit back and expect change to happen. As the
living citizens of Earth, it is our duty to protect our home planet
for our posterity and for all living creatures. Cameron La Follette
and Chris Maser’s thinking can complement a public trust approach
in the campaign for stewardship, not destruction, of our Earth. A
rights of nature approach can lead society towards a new ethic, one
calling for restraint and harmony with the natural world we rely
on—so that all species, not just humans, can flourish."
—Mary Wood, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA"In
Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction, La
Follette and Maser dramatically outline what is at stake if we
continue current environmental policies and what approaches are
necessary to improve the sustainability of our global
lifeboat."
— Timothy D. Schowalter, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, USA"Sustainability And The Rights Of Nature: An
Introduction may be Chris Maser’s most ambitious work. In
collaboration with attorney Cameron La Follette, the book makes an
impassioned and compelling case for the premise that humankind
cannot flourish, or perhaps even survive, unless we recognize the
primacy of the natural world within which our produced world of
goods and artifacts is embedded. Cameron La Follette contributes
the vital legal background that allows the book to demonstrate that
the task of elevating the Rights of Nature must ultimately be a
clear-eyed and practical task that recruits our formal legal
systems to the effort. This rich and carefully crafted work makes
an impressive and ultimately optimistic contribution to the
creation of a humble, but satisfying, human presence on our one and
only home planet."
—C. Russell Beaton, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA
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