Should buildings have standing?
A. Pereira Roders (TU Delft - Heritage & Architecture)
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Abstract
In 1972, Christopher Stone’s seminal essay, ‘Should Trees Have Standing?’, challenged anthropocentric legal frameworks by proposing legal rights for non-human entities, sparking a paradigm shift in environmental law and ethics (Stone, 1972). More than 50 years later, the extension of legal rights to non-human entities has evolved significantly, with non-human stakeholders such as rivers and ecosystems being granted legal personhood in various jurisdictions worldwide (e.g. Boyd, 2017; Kauffman & Martin, 2021). [...]
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