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EARTH-CENTRIC APROACH IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Lidija Runko Luttenberger orcid.org/0000-0002-4011-0605 ; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka
Axel Luttenberger ; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies Rijeka

Abstract

The paper examines the achievements of Earth-centric approach to environmental protection, with particular reference to the 2010 Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. Analysis is made of the theoretical basis of the Earth-centric approach and of the new approach distinguished as wild law. The advances in method of regulating inherent rights in Bolivia and Ecuador are quoted as new features of protecting the Earth rights, together with the practice of acting by central and local authorities. The liability for envi¬ronmental protection is accentuated from the viewpoint of placing nature in the centre of system protection values. The authors advocate that present environmental law be upgraded by achievements of the Earth-centric approach, and that the new institutional framework for preserving the nature and human environment be instituted at global and national level.

Keywords

Earth-centric approach; environmental protection; Rights of Mother Earth; wild law; liability

Hrčak ID:

83496

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/83496

Publication date:

27.6.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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