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Locating nature in international law

Re-examining international law assumptions about the natural world is not mere theoretical speculation, write Usha Natarajan and Julia Dehm. It is an urgent step to address pressing environmental challenges.

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Indigenous peoples, climate justice and human rights

In a new book Giada Giacomini argues for a paradigm shift in international law to better protect Indigenous peoples and their lands. Humankind lives, she says, on an existential continuum with other natural elements.

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Between ecology & indigeneity

Environmental struggles and harms are bound together with the histories and struggles of Indigenous peoples. Stefanie Fishel, Christine Winter & Anthony Burke introduce a new special issue of Borderlands.

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Oil palm & the Marind

In West Papua, oil palm expansion undermines the relations of indigenous people to forest plants and animals. By Sophie Chao.

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