Iván Vargas-Roncancio is a Ph.D. candidate in Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University. His research involves an ethnographic study of indigenous practitioners, scientists, legal scholars, and ritual plants across territories, labs, and courts of justice in an effort to contribute to a larger paradigm shift surrounding the recognition of the rights of nature. In his presentation, Mr. Vargas-Roncancio explored the impacts of the rights of nature on the legal system and economic development in post-conflict Columbia. He first offered a severe picture of the way in which environmental destruction in the Columbian amazon has resulted from a combination of extractivist projects, drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare at the expense of indigenous communities. He then introduced the legal revolution brought by the recognition of rights of nature by the judiciary. While saluting these significant advances in the legal system, he also noted the absence of impact on the economic development model. He argued that the legal revolution needed to go a step further by incorporating different understandings of nature and non-human beings, especially understandings from indigenous cultures. This agenda, he argued, raises questions for legal practice, such as how nature can be represented in legal proceedings, and how different types of rights can be adjudicated. In his interview, he elaborated on the need to attune legal and economic system reforms, on the role of indigenous communities, their cosmologies, knowledge and practices of nature and law in this process, as well as on the implications that this could have for addressing climate change.
Iván Vargas-Roncancio是麦吉尔大学自然资源科学博士候选人。他的主要对土著实践者、科学家、法律专家和不同国家、体制下的法律进行研究，以努力促进围绕承认自然权利的更大范式转变。Vargas-Roncancio先生在发言中探讨了自然权利对冲突后哥伦比亚的法律制度和经济发展的影响。他首先介绍了哥伦比亚亚马逊地区环境遭破坏的严重情况，这些破坏是由采掘项目、贩毒和游击战共同造成的，损害了土著社区的利益。然后，他介绍了司法部门承认自然权利所带来的法律革命。他在赞扬法律制度的这些重大进步的同时，也指出其对经济发展模式没有产生明显影响。他认为，法律革命需要更进一步，纳入对自然和非人类的不同理解，特别是土著文化的理解。他认为，这一议程为法律实践提出了一些问题，例如如何在法律程序中体现自然，以及如何对不同类型的权利进行裁决。在访谈中，他阐述了调整法律和经济制度改革的必要性，土著社区的作用、其自然和法律的知识和实践在这一进程中的作用，以及对解决气候变化问题可能产生的影响。