Though Bangladesh’s High Court has declared rivers ‘legal persons’, ineffective implementation renders this ruling elusive.

Galib Mahmud Pasha is a civil servant in the Government of Bangladesh, currently reading for a Masters in Environment at the Australian National University. His research interests are on policy, ...

Els van Dongen is Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She specialises in modern and contemporary China, with research focused on Chinese intellectual history, knowledge ...