The new book The Politics of Riverine Rights - Environmental Struggles in Aotearoa New Zealand, Colombia and India (taylorfrancis.com) (open access) describes the outcomes of granting rivers in these countries legal personhood.
We present the findings from the research project Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers and discuss whether such legal models could be useful in a Norwegian context.
Programme
The event is moderated by Andrew P. Kroglund.
Part 1: What happens when rivers are given personhood rights? (in English)
- Rights of Nature and the Riverine Rights Research Project. Axel Borchgrevink (OsloMet)
- Themes and findings of the book. A conversation with three of the authors of the book, Miriama Cribb (Aotearoa New Zealand), Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta (Eafit Colombia), John McNeish (Norwegian University of Life Sciences).
Break with light refreshments.
Part 2: Can rights for rivers and fjords provide better protection of nature in Norway? (in Norwegian)
- Førdefjorden: Nature’s legal protection and the value of experiences with river rights for a Norwegian context. Malene K. Brandshaug (OsloMet)
- Panel discussion: Ahead of the Norway’s Supreme Court’s hearing of the fjord lawsuit concerning Førdefjorden in April: What potential does the current legal framework offer for protecting Førdefjorden? Would the potential be greater if nature had legal rights?
- With Marius Gulbranson, author of Det store klimasøksmålet and external PhD candidate in constitutional law
- Pernille Bonnevie Hansen, assistant manager in Naturvernforbundet (Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature).
