#209
Year
Recipient
Aaron Hernandez
Amount
$12,500
Over the past twenty years, natural entities such as rivers and forests are increasingly being granted legal rights in an effort to protect ecosystems. While these cases represent a transformative shift in western legal-governance systems, rights of nature are often articulated in abstract terms that are difficult to implement through spatial and material practices. Atlas for Living Landscapes addresses this knowledge gap by investigating the spatial, material, and operational implications of rights of nature policies, beginning with a comparative case study of two Commonwealth rivers: Muteshekau Shipu in Quebec and Te Awa Tupua in New Zealand.