Revisiting groundwater law through the lenses of earth system law and rights of nature
Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada,
Elisabeth Lictevout,
Susanne Schmeier
et al.
Abstract:Current groundwater challenges have made evident that national and international groundwater law needs a thorough revision. In this article, we explore earth system law (ESL) and rights of nature (RoN) as possible approaches to rethink groundwater law. Taking inspiration from ESL scholarship, RoN literature, Indigenous worldviews, and socio‐ecological movements, we analyze law as a critical element of the human‐political‐social system, which creates regulatory institutions with the aim to provide a social orde… Show more
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