How do environmental rights matter in local circumstances?

The added value of environmental rights is reflected not least in their respective local context. Our research in the ERCC Max Planck Fellow Group combines methods from law and ethnology. Coal mining in the Mongolian province of South Gobi and its effects on the nearby land of cattle herders; a dam on the River Omo and its effects on the Dassanech settlement area in the border region with Kenya; or the right of the Los Cedros cloud forest north-east of Quito to keep the gold in its ground – these are some examples of our research.