From Blue Community Ambassador Erin O’Donnell:
Researching river personhood: Making the case for relational research methods.
The concept of legal personhood offers compelling ways to rethink water use and governance—but researching it comes with risks.
by Elizabeth Macpherson, Cristy Clark and Hayden Turoa.
Across the world, researchers, activists, funders, and even governments are exploring how the law can recognize rivers as living beings and legal persons. Unsurprisingly, research on the use of legal personhood as part of natural resource governance is trending: if you type “legal personhood nature” into Google Scholar, it will return some 247,000 results.
