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CONTENTS
Preface
1. Introduction
1.1. Where the Thought Is Born
1.2. The Unfolding of the Creation Protection Approach
in the Social Teaching of the Church
1.3. The Environmental Crisis Also Threatens the Enforceability
of Human Rights
1.4. One Planet - One Hope
1.5. Regulatory Concepts in Environmental Codifications
1.5.1. Creation Protection Approach
1.5.2. Integral Ecology in Laudato Si’
1.5.3. The relationship between creatures
1.5.4. Ecological sin
1.6. Our Responsibility to Future Generations
1.7. Secular and Ecclesiastical Perception of Subsidiarity
1.8. Conclusion
2. Rights for Nature?
2.1. Legal Roots of the Concept of Rights of Nature
2.2. What Legal Rights Are Granted to Nature?
2.3. Beginnings — The Theory of Christopher D. Stone
2.4. Stone’s Three Pillars
2.4.1. Possibility of Extending Legal Personality
2.4.2. Stone’s Compensation Model
3. Global Case Studies — Nature’s Rights in Action
3.1. Sierra v. Morton
3.1.1. Dissenting opinion of W.O. Douglas
3.1.2. Position ofthe majority opinion
3.1.3. Views of those in favour of a more flexible approach
to protecting the environment
3.2. The Emergence of the Concept at the Constitutional Level
3.2.1. Social and Sociological Processes in Latin America
3.2.2. Constitution of Ecuador
3.3. The appearance of the concept in regulation at the level of law
3.3.1. Bolivian legislation
3.3.2. Ugandan legislation
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