Sustainability and the Rights of Nature

Sustainability and the Rights of Nature: An Introduction is a much-needed guide that addresses the exciting and significant paradigm shift to the Rights of Nature, as it is occurring both in the United States and internationally in the fields of environmental law and environmental sustainability. The authors advocate building a relationship of integrity and reciprocity with the planet by placing Rights of Nature in the forefront of our rights-based legal systems. They explore means of achieving this by first laying out Nature¿s Laws of Reciprocity and then providing a roadmap of the strategies and directions needed to create a Rights of Nature-based legal system that will shape and maintain human activities in an environmentally sustainable manner.