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Indigenous Influence On The Rights Of Nature Movement, Vanessa Racehorse
Indigenous Influence On The Rights Of Nature Movement, Vanessa Racehorse
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The growing recognition of the rights of nature is a blend of both modern conservation efforts and principles reflected in traditional Indigenous stewardship that should be an essential component of the discourse around environmental justice. This article provides an overview of the laws that invoke the rights of nature that Indigenous perspectives and practices regarding environmental preservation have influenced. This discussion pays particular attention to the White Earth Band of Ojibwe's "Rights of Manoomin" law and Manoomin v. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (White Earth Band of Ojibwe Tribal Ct. 2021), the first rights of nature case filed in a …
Remaking Environmental Justice, Clifford Villa
Remaking Environmental Justice, Clifford Villa
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From movements for civil rights in the 1960s and environmental protection in the 1970s, the environmental justice movement emerged in the 1980s and 1990s to highlight the disparate impacts of pollution, principally upon people of color and low-income communities. Over time, the scope of environmental justice expanded to address concerns for other dimensions of diversity. New and continuing challenges tell us that we need to reframe our understanding of environmental justice to ensure better protection for people going forward. One way to reframe this understanding may be to apply the heuristic of vulnerability analysis as proposed by legal theorist Martha …
Flint Drinking Water Contamination: Frames Of Reference, Clifford J. Villa
Flint Drinking Water Contamination: Frames Of Reference, Clifford J. Villa
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Presentation given at Harvard Law School on Flint, Michigan, lead toxicity and what we can do as a matter of law.