Rivers as living and moral entities in China: Another pathway for rights of nature?

[David Salt]

Could an ethical framework that recognizes rivers as living and moral entities be the framing that we are missing in our efforts to create sustainable futures for our declining river systems? In 2024, the Chinese government proposed just such an approach. Here, Janice Baird and Shaw Xiao explain what it involves and what it could mean.

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