Presentation by Elizabeth Macpherson

Our NZ country lead, Dr Elizabeth Macpherson, gave the presentation ‘A New Zealand Perspective on an Ecological Constitution and the Rights of Nature in Chile’ as part of a webinar arranged by environmental NGO FIMA and the University of Chile on the need for better protection of environmental/natures rights in Chile’s constitutional reform process. You …

A new member of the Riverine Rights project team!

Dr. Rahul Ranjan has been hired as a post-doctoral fellow on the project. Rahul is a political anthropologist from India, who recently completed his PhD at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in March this year in a record time of three years. His first day of work for the project – and …

The Riverine Rights Project has been launched!

July 1st marked the formal start of this research project. It will explore the consequences of the recognition of rivers as legal persons in countries as different as New Zealand, India and Colombia. It involves six researchers, from the three case countries as well as from Norway and the UK, with backgrounds from the social …