Indigenous Environmental Rights

Jessika Eichler specialises in indigenous peoples' rights, working with a dedicated interdisciplinary approach, combining the law with socio-political inquiry and theory. She co-edits several prestigious writing projects, notably a Commentary on UNDRIPS (article-by-article), a Research Handbook of Collective Rights and a forthcoming human rights book series. Mario G. Aguilera is an international lawyer and scholar specializing in environmental and human rights law. He has worked with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is the author of Environmental Human Rights (2023), the first in-depth study of the emerging environmental human rights regime in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Foreword; Preface; Introductory remarks: indigenous environmental rights – conceptual considerations Jessika Eichler and Mario Aguilera; Part I. Amidst International Human Rights Law and Environmental Legal Landscapes: International Orders Examined: 1. Tracing indigenous environmental rights: a critical view of international human rights law Jonathan Liljeblad; 2. Indigenous rights under the convention on biological diversity: reinforcing and expanding human rights law Federica Cittadino; Part II. Beyond the 'Human' in Indigenous Environmental Law? Impressions from a Dualistic Debate: 3. Rights of nature as symbol and ritual: recognition of indigenous cosmovisions within western legal ontology Bart Jansen and Tineke Lambooy; 4. The rights of nature and the right to territory of indigenous peoples: decolonising ecocentrism Digno Montalván Zambrano and Isabel Wences; 5. Rights of nature: the biocultural approach and indigenous customary law in Latin America Laura Calle Alzate and Nurys Esperanza Silva Cantillo; Part III. Decolonising the Law: What Place for (Transformative) Legal Pluralism?: 6. Mapuche Law (Az Mapu), legal pluralism, and transmodernity: possibilities and limitations of contextual environmental justice Ricardo Salas Astrain and Cristian Pacheco Huaiquifil; 7. The religious dimensions of indigenous environmental rights: disputes overlLand and pathways forward Núria Reguart-Segarra.