Katarina Hovden
PhD Student
PhD programme
Karen Blixens Plads 16, 2300 København S, Søndre Campus, Building: 6A.4.37
PhD Fellow (2017-2021), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Young Professional (2018-), Earth-centred Law, United Nations Harmony with Nature Knowledge Network
Research Fellow (2018-), Earth System Governance Project
Member (2017-), Ecological Law and Governance Association
Current research
The rights of Nature: The potential of ecological worldviews to transform law and reconceive relationships
Katarina's PhD work engages with the development to recognise the personhood and rights of Nature in the law. Katarina understands the rights of Nature (and its supporting ecological philosophy) as an attempt to acknowledge and protect the voices, agencies and needs of all living beings in law and policy. Her PhD work focuses on developments in Europe, and explores the potential for ecological worldviews to transform law and reconceive relationships.
Supervisor: Professor Helle Krunke
Co-supervisor: Professor Louis Kotzé
Primary fields of research
- Rights of Nature
- Ecological jurisprudence / Earth jurisprudence
- Legal rights
- Ontological turn
- Multispecies perspectives
- Non-human agency
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