Costituzionalismo ecologico e soggettività giuridiche post-umane: nuove dinamiche di ”cross fertilization from South to North”

The degradation of the planet’s biophysical limits is calling into question the foundations of Western legal tradition. In response to the consumerism and industrialisation driven by the Global North, holistic and ecocentric constitutional paradigms have been emerging across the Global South. An increasing number of jurisdictions worldwide are recognising legal personhood for natural entities. The discourse on nature as a rights-bearing subject has been circulating with such intensity that, most recently, Spain has granted legal rights to the Mar Menor lagoon. What impact might the Rights of Nature movement have on the legal protection of the environment in Europe, and in particular in Italy, in light of the recently amended constitutional text?