1. An academics way to Rights of Nature - Craig M. Kauffman

Craig Kauffman is a professor of political science at the University of Oregon and author of the book The Politics of Rights of Nature together with Pamela L Martin. Craig is one of the first academics to engage with the rights of nature. He gives an overview of how rights of nature frameworks started to emerge simultaneously in different parts of the world as a response from common pressures that communities were facing, where they experienced how the law did not protect them or their lands. Craig has been part of developing the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor (https://ecojurisprudence.org/), a tool to keep track of the emerging field of ecological jurisprudence; legal initiatives that transcends anthropocentric law. They have been growing exponentially since those first steps almost 20 years ago, and at the time of recording there are 500+ documented cases. Host: Pella Thiel, producer: Fredrik Arestav, music: "Nightjar" by Cosmo Sheldrake, art: Scene from "Thanatopsis" by Asher Brown Durand.