Earth Jurisprudence

Description

"Coordinated by Maria Mercedes Sanchez Rodriguez, the Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network holds over two hundred expert members and grows through a nomination and vetting process. This expanding network of policymakers, lawyers, and civil society works on cultivating a value system centered on the rights of nature and Earth. There is a shared understanding that Earth is a complex living system where humans must apply principles that guarantee the continuity of natural regeneration processes. Indeed, the exercise of Earth Jurisprudence requires a very different mindset from what has been perpetuated through conventional education. Western societies have been structured within a patriarchal belief system where man is entitled to determine how land, converted into property, is commodified and how ecosystems are managed to change that property's vocation and market value."

(https://www.oneearth.org/how-to-protect-earth-by-the-harmony-with-nature-policy/_