The Rights of Nature Toolkit promotes access to justice by de-mystifying the laws regulating water pollution and providing practical advice on how to use legal tools to protect rivers.
The toolkit - produced by students and staff at Kings College London - aims to help community activists, legal clinics, and legal professionals promote the Rights of Rivers, especially the right to be free from pollution. Learn more about it here.
The toolkit - produced by students and staff at Kings College London - aims to help community activists, legal clinics, and legal professionals promote the Rights of Rivers, especially the right to be free from pollution. Learn more about it here.
The Rights of Rivers toolkit - produced by Hogan Lovells and the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) is an excellent resource for any community looking to recognize and protect the rights of their local river.
The resource offers practical advice and legal steps which local communities can take to protect their rivers, from council motions to river representation. You can find it here.
The resource offers practical advice and legal steps which local communities can take to protect their rivers, from council motions to river representation. You can find it here.
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Here is a useful short document produced by the network, detailing some of the practical benefits and strategies of adopting a River Rights approach
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More Useful Links and Resources:
- The Lawyers for Nature website has a number of useful blogposts and other sources of information relevant to river rights groups. www.lawyersfornature.com/
- The Anima Mundi website has an excellent series of short and accessible introductions to global rights of nature cases. www.animamundilaw.org/rights-of-nature-case-studies
- The Eco-jurisprudence monitor is a website which tries to keep up to date with the rights of nature, legal personhood, and connected cases as they emerge across the globe. ecojurisprudence.org/
