River Rights: Currents, Undercurrents and Planetary Vistas

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.3197/ge.2022.150303

Rita Brara, María Valeria Berros

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Abstract

This paper focuses on recent legal innovations that recognise rivers as having rights in countries and cultures of the Global South. These innovations arise from the urgency to look into the interests and health of both rivers and indigenous/local peoples who depend on the resources of rivers for their material and spiritual sustenance. The article proceeds in three sections. In the first section, we outline the main currents in the formal legal doctrine that are shaping the granting of river rights worldwide. The second section brings out the political and religious undercurrents which tend to reshape legal initiatives in different national cultures and give rise to diverging socio-legal trajectories. Here we track these movements in three countries, namely Colombia, New Zealand and India. In the final section, we outline imaginaries that envision new and recast planetary institutions - including a parliament of rivers - in the context of emergent ecological concerns.

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河流权利:潮流、暗流和行星远景

本文关注的是最近承认河流在全球南方国家和文化中拥有权利的法律创新。这些创新源于迫切需要研究河流和依靠河流资源获得物质和精神维持的土著/当地人民的利益和健康。本文分为三个部分。在第一部分中，我们概述了形成世界范围内河流权利授予的正式法律学说的主要趋势。第二部分提出了政治和宗教的暗流，这些暗流倾向于重塑不同民族文化中的法律倡议，并产生不同的社会-法律轨迹。在这里，我们追踪了三个国家的这些活动，即哥伦比亚、新西兰和印度。在最后一部分，我们概述了在新兴生态问题的背景下设想新的和重塑的行星机构的想象-包括河流议会。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

CiteScore

0.50

自引率

25.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.