Achieving Biodiversity Protection In Megadiverse Countries

Author : Paul Martin,Márcia Dieguez Leuzinger,Solange Teles da Silva,Gabriel Leuzinger Coutinho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000052459

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Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries by Paul Martin,Márcia Dieguez Leuzinger,Solange Teles da Silva,Gabriel Leuzinger Coutinho Pdf

This volume systematically analyses why legal doctrines for the protection of biodiversity are not sufficiently effective. It examples implementation in Australia and Brazil, two megadiverse countries with very differing legal and cultural traditions and natural environments. Substantial effort goes into the development and interpretation of legal doctrines for the protection of biodiversity in national and international law. Despite this, biodiversity continues in steep decline. Nowhere is this more evident than in megadiverse countries, such as Australia and Brazil, which possess the greatest number and diversity of animals and plants on Earth. The book covers a wide range of topics, including farming, mining, marine environments, indigenous interests and governance. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries highlights specific causes of underperformance in protecting diverse terrestrial and marine environments. It provides proposals for more effective implementation in these two jurisdictions, relevant to other megadiverse territories, and for biodiversity protection generally. Each chapter was written by teams of Australian and Brazilian authors, so that similar issues are considered across both jurisdictions, to provide both country-specific and generalisable insights. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and governance and biodiversity conservation, as well as policymakers, practitioners and NGOs working in these fields.

Author : Paul Martin,Solange Teles da Silva,Marcia Leuzinger,Miriam Verbeek,Andrew Lawson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803922768

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Non-doctrinal Research Methods in Environmental Law by Paul Martin,Solange Teles da Silva,Marcia Leuzinger,Miriam Verbeek,Andrew Lawson Pdf

This timely book explores the innovative non-doctrinal methods currently being used in environmental law research. Drawing on their extensive experience, expert contributors provide insight into how creative approaches to research can improve understanding of law and policy, leading to more effective legal protection for the environment.

Author : Guillaume Futhazar,Sandrine Maljean-Dubois,Jona Razzaque,Professor of Environmental Law Jona Razzaque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192865465

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Biodiversity Litigation by Guillaume Futhazar,Sandrine Maljean-Dubois,Jona Razzaque,Professor of Environmental Law Jona Razzaque Pdf

Biodiversity is in accelerated decline and urgent action is needed. In 2020, the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity ended, and none of its Aichi Targets were met. Despite the legally disappointing situation on a global level, the role of national courts in adjudicating climate change litigation is showing potential for effective mitigation and adaptation, and judges have become key actors in linking internationally agreed goals with tangible national commitments to mitigate climate change. Can this pursuit of globally agreed goals at a local level be transposed and lead a similar trend for biodiversity governance? This edited collection gives readers an overview of the shape and reach of biodiversity litigation, drawing on specific case studies from countries such as Brazil, China, India and Canada. It considers two questions: Firstly, what is the influence of international biodiversity law on biodiversity litigation? Secondly, what are the trends of biodiversity litigation? Leading experts discuss these questions from the perspective of developing, developed and mega bio-diverse countries, promoting the concept of biodiversity litigation as a common notion of environmental law, and arguing for more creative legal thinking when dealing with and analysing biodiversity-related disputes.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264303201

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Mainstreaming Biodiversity for Sustainable Development by OECD Pdf

Drawing on experiences and insights from 16 megadiverse countries, this report examines how biodiversity is being mainstreamed in four key areas.

Author : Anne Elvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695147

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Reading with Earth by Anne Elvey Pdf

Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.

Author : Deane, Felicity,Hamman, Evan,Huggins, Anna
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781839104169

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Natural Capital, Agriculture and the Law by Deane, Felicity,Hamman, Evan,Huggins, Anna Pdf

This timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility.

Author : Thomas O. McShane,Michael P. Wells
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 9780231127653

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Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work by Thomas O. McShane,Michael P. Wells Pdf

This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.

Author : Timothy Swanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134174744

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Global Action for Biodiversity by Timothy Swanson Pdf

At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity. Since then, over 160 countries have ratified the Convention, three Conferences of the Parties have taken place and a permanent secretariat has been established. Despite this, there remains a lot of uncertainty and even more controversy about what the Convention was intended to accomplish and how it was to do so. This book, published in association with the IUCN - The World Conservation Union, sets out to answer some of these questions by recounting the history of the movements leading up to the Convention, but especially by analysing the forces giving rise to the problem. It provides a specific set of policy prescriptions intended to facilitate the development of institutions and obligations within the international community which will give real effect to the aspirations of the Convention, and the ensure that it has some real effect at ground level. The author begins with an overview of the issues and then develops the basic nature of the problems within a bio-economic framework. He highlights the gaps in the Convention which remain to be filled, offers detailed explanations of the concepts involved and describes the nature of the solutions required. Thus he sets out a detailed plan for global action in support of an effective international convention for the conservation of biological diversity. The book is an excellent introduction to a very topical debate, and a valuable reference point for conservationists, policy makers and students of development studies, environmental studies, environmental policy and conservation biology.

Author : Lakshman D. Guruswamy,Jeffrey A. McNeely
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015047081172

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Protection of Global Biodiversity by Lakshman D. Guruswamy,Jeffrey A. McNeely Pdf

The rate of extinction of biological species is greater today than at any time in the last 65 million years. Some predict that if this rate continues, two-thirds of all living species will disappear during the next century. Because reaching consensus on specific courses of action involves complex issues, any adequate response to this impending crisis must include coverage of many areas of inquiry and understanding. Protection of Global Biodiversity features essays by distinguished international experts who communicate with each other across disciplinary boundaries to address the challenge of formulating policies to protect biodiversity. Although the global community has recently adopted a Convention of Biological Diversity, the agreement sets forth only abstract goals. Contributors to this volume advance the Convention's initial steps by providing workable solutions that can be implemented regionally, nationally, and locally. The contributors--including natural, social, and political scientists; economists; lawyers; and environmentalists; and decisionmakers in business, agriculture, and government--have united to create a common discourse and to evaluate and propose strategies for halting this alarming loss of biodiversity. In recognizing the diverse aspects of this task--scientific, economic, institutional, moral, and legal--this book presents a new picture of emerging action. Contributors. S. James Anaya, Gregory Benford, Graciela Chichilnisky, S. Todd Crider, Yvonne Cripps, Robert T. Fraley, Anil K. Gupta, Lakshman D. Guruswamy, G. M. Heal, Brent Hendricks, Robert B. Horsch, Laura L. Jackson, Annie Lovejoy, Ariel E. Lugo, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Brian G. Norton, Elinor Ostrom, Peter H. Raven, John W. Reid, Walter V. Reid, Mark Sagoff, Roger A. Sedgo, R. David Simpson, Ana Sittenfeld, Christopher D. Stone, Gary H. Toenniessen

Author : Michael M. Gunter
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : 1584653833

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Building the Next Ark by Michael M. Gunter Pdf

A timely study of how NGOs are uniquely positioned to help prevent the greatest environmental crisis of all.

Author : Jeffrey A. McNeely,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Publisher : International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : UOM:49015001401430

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Conserving the World's Biological Diversity by Jeffrey A. McNeely,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Pdf

Biological diversity: what it is a and why it is important; The values of biological diversity; How and why biological resources are threatened; Approaches to conserving biological diversity; The information required to conserve biological diversity; Establishing priorities for conserving biological diversity; The role of strategies and action plans in promoting conservation of biological diversity; How to pay for coserving biological diversity; Enlisting new partners for conservation of biological diversity.

Author : N. Biedinger,Wilhelm Barthlott,Matthias Winiger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662060711

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Biodiversity by N. Biedinger,Wilhelm Barthlott,Matthias Winiger Pdf

Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "diversity of species", is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized. Today we know that "biological diversity is a global asset of incalculable value to present and future generations" (Kofi Annan). Biodiversity is spread unequally over the world: in fact, the main share of biological resources worldwide is harboured predominantly by the so-called developing countries in the tropics and sub tropics. Therefore, Biodiversity - A Challenge for Development Research and Policy was chosen as the title for an international conference which was held in Bonn in 1997 as one of the first major events organized by the then newly established North-South Centre for Development Research (ZEF) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany). Since the ZEF, founded by the Senate of the University of Bonn in 1995, has played a central role in turning Bonn into a centre for international cooperation and North-South dialogue. The Centre is a product of the Bonn Berlin agreement of July 1994 which was adopted to offset the effects caused by the Parliament and much of the Government moving to Berlin. It fits in well with the double strategy to strengthen Bonn's position as an interna tional science arena and as an eminent place for development policy and the national and supranational agencies dealing with this issue.

Author : David L. Hawksworth,Alan T. Bull
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402052835

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Human Exploitation and Biodiversity Conservation by David L. Hawksworth,Alan T. Bull Pdf

This book presents a wide range of contributions addressing diverse aspects of biodiversity exploitation and conservation. These collectively provide a snapshot of ongoing action and state-of-the-art research, rather than a series of necessarily more superficial overviews. Examples presented here derive from studies in 17 countries including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. These reports will stimulate future work toward attaining a sustainable balance between the conservation and exploitation of biodiversity.

Author : National Research Council of Canada,Tropical Conservancy (Organization)
Publisher : NRC Research Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0660627132

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Biodiversity and Health by National Research Council of Canada,Tropical Conservancy (Organization) Pdf

Author : Timothy O'Riordan,Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521890527

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Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities by Timothy O'Riordan,Susanne Stoll-Kleemann Pdf

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