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Frogs, coalitions, and mining: Transformative insights for planetary health and earth system law from Ecuador’s struggle to enforce Nature’s rights

Author links open overlay panel Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío abc, Mario A. Moncayo-Altamirano d , Andrea Terán-Valdez e,  Gustavo Redin-Guerrero f ,  Carlos Varela d, Stephen Posner g, Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui bch Abstract Pachamama, Mother Earth, faces a mass extinction threat. A radical transformation in human systems is essential, guided by equity and justice at local and global scales. This transformation must reconfigure the World-System’s power structures, impacting the ecosphere (ecological functions, biodiversity, and resource […]

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A tale of two frogs, six mining companies and much, much more

Carlos Zorrilla From the outside looking in, it’s easy to get the impression that it’s a black-and-white struggle of two critically endangered frogs versus a massive transnational copper mining project. In part, you’d be right. But it’s much more than that. It could be said that it all started in the 1980’s when a Belgian-government […]

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