Is a River Alive?

Robert Macfarlane

At the heart of 'Is a River Alive?' is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognised as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share. The young 'rights of nature' movement has lit up activists, artists, law-makers and politicians across six continents - and become the focus for revolutionary thinking about rivers in particular.

Author(s): Macfarlane, Robert
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 01/05/2025
Pagination: 384 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Published By: Hamish Hamilton
Book Classification: |Conservation of wildlife & habitats|Climate change|Climate change|Ecological science, the Biosphere|Human geography|Environmentalist thought & ideology
Dimensions: 240x160x33
Weight: 594
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241624814