Latin American Buen Vivir and Rights of Nature

Law, Human Rights and Sustainable Development

Dorine E. van Norren (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

393 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-1482-5 (ISBN)

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This refreshing account of wellbeing perspectives of Ecuadorian "Good Living" sheds a new light on sustainability debates. It puts into question the universality of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The slogan of the goals, "Leave non-one behind," begs the question who is behind and who is ahead. Development is caught in the logic of linear "sustainable" growth of nations or centres around the flourishing of the individual instead of the community. "Let Mother Earth lead" summarizes the indigenous American approach, embracing a biocentric outlook on life where human laws and (environmental) governance systems must follow the laws of the earth. With concrete examples of policies, law, jurisprudence and practice from Ecuador, this book is a must read for philosophers willing to think beyond European philosophy, (development) economists interested in reshaping today's paradigms, innovative lawyers with an environmental heart, anthropologists who yearn for a dialogue between worldviews of the Global South and science, and all people who seek new meaning in today's society.

Dorine van Norren is an associate researcher at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands (Law) and Pretoria, South Africa (Decoloniality). She studied law in Amsterdam and Cape Town and French in Lyon. She has a Master's in International and Dutch Law from Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1995), and a PhD in Law and Development Studies from Tilburg and Amsterdam University, the Netherlands (2017). She did field research for her PhD in Ecuador, Bhutan, South Africa, and at the UN in New York and Paris. She has published articles in world-renowned journals and books with respected publishers. She worked as a diplomat in Sri Lanka and Turkey and held several positions at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Southern Africa, North America, European Integration departments). She worked for the Advisory Council of International Affairs. She was Coordinator for UNESCO, human rights and SDGs at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture including UNESCO Commission advisory member. Currently she is Strategic Advisor Western Hemisphere.The book is written on a personal title.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-0364-1482-5 / 1036414825
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-1482-5 / 9781036414825
Zustand	Neuware