The Law And Policy Of Ecosystem Services

Author : J. B. Ruhl,Steven E. Kraft,Christopher L. Lant
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1597267694

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The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services by J. B. Ruhl,Steven E. Kraft,Christopher L. Lant Pdf

The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is the first comprehensive exploration of the status and future of natural capital and ecosystem services in American law and policy. The book develops a framework for thinking about ecosystem services across their ecologic, geographic, economic, social, and legal dimensions and evaluates the prospects of crafting a legal infrastructure that can help build an ecosystem service economy that is as robust as existing economies for manufactured goods, natural resource commodities, and human-provided services. The book examines the geographic, ecological, and economic context of ecosystem services and provides a baseline of the current status of ecosystem services in law and society. It identifies shortcomings of current law and policy and the critical areas for improvement and forges an approach for the design of new law and policy for ecosystem services. Included are a series of nine empirical case studies that explore the problems caused by society’s failure to properly value natural capital. Among the case study topics considered are water issues, The Conservation Reserve Program, the National Conservation Buffer Initiative, the agricultural policy of the European Union, wetland mitigation, and pollution trading. The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services is a groundbreaking look at the question of whether and how law and policy can shape a sustainable system of ecosystem service management. It is an accessible and informative work for faculty, students, and policy makers concerned with ecology, economics, geography, political science, environmental studies, law, and related fields.

Author : Thomas Greiber
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9782831711768

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Payments for Ecosystem Services by Thomas Greiber Pdf

Author : KEITH. OWLEY HIROKAWA (JESSICA.),Jessica Owley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585762350

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Environmental Law, Disrupted by KEITH. OWLEY HIROKAWA (JESSICA.),Jessica Owley Pdf

To date, U.S. law has largely served as an obstacle to an honest assessment of our preparedness to face the climate change challenge. Given that society has become comfortable amidst mild climatic conditions, and given a pervasive reluctance to change, extreme and abrupt climatic changes will hit hard. Our current legal structure maintains a dangerous status quo and it is time to unleash the potential of communities and the private sector to produce innovative solutions. This book, the fourth in a series by the Environmental Law Collaborative, addresses disruption from a variety of influences and perspectives. Some essays consider the disruptive effects of environmental changes on human and ecological safety, security, and well-being, suggesting that the impacts of climate changes are not accounted for in the current legal system. Some identify key changes needed to respond to climatic challenges, social inequities, and dwindling grey and green resources. Others deconstruct social, political, and professional frameworks to understand how such influences might be used to disrupt the current regime, or even ones where expectations are being disrupted with the endorsement of law. Taken together, these essays provide an understanding of the cause, effect, and opportunity that environmental disruption presents in the climate change era.

Author : Kalyani Robbins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 1935603639

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The Laws of Nature by Kalyani Robbins Pdf

This timely collection written by an interdisciplinary array of law professors, who specialize in legal and policy issues surrounding ecosystem management, and scholars and practitioners in areas such as environmental policy and planning, conservation, economics, and biology explore why ecosystems must be valued and managed in their own right. The importance of ecosystems has been underestimated. We cannot simply hope ecosystems will benefit from legislation focused on other environmental and natural resource protections, such as those for wildlife, trees, air and water. An ecosystem, a community of organisms together with their physical environment, viewed as a system of interacting and interdependent relationships, has its own intricate administrative issues. Edited by Kalyani Robbins, a law professor, The Laws of Nature investigates how ecosystems function, their value to humans and wildlife, and what factors affect ecosystems' survival. This analysis is coupled with cutting-edge theories and regulatory proposals from legal scholars who study ecosystem questions. In the end, a thorough and multi-disciplinary understanding of the importance of ecosystem is presented.

Author : Timothy G. O’Higgins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Aquatic ecology
ISBN : 9783030458430

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Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity by Timothy G. O’Higgins Pdf

Aquatic ecosystems are rich in biodiversity and home to a diverse array of species and habitats, providing a wide variety of benefits to human beings. Many of these valuable ecosystems are at risk of being irreversibly damaged by human activities and pressures, including pollution, contamination, invasive species, overfishing and climate change. Such pressures threaten the sustainability of these ecosystems, their provision of ecosystem services and ultimately human well-being. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is now widely considered the most promising paradigm for balancing sustainable development and biodiversity protection, and various international strategies and conventions have championed the EBM cause and the inclusion of ecosystem services in decision-making. This open access book introduces the essential concepts and principles required to implement ecosystem-based management, detailing tools and techniques, and describing the application of these concepts and tools to a broad range of aquatic ecosystems, from the shores of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland to the estuaries of the US Pacific Northwest and the tropical Mekong Delta.

Author : Karsten Grunewald,Olaf Bastian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662441435

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Ecosystem Services – Concept, Methods and Case Studies by Karsten Grunewald,Olaf Bastian Pdf

Nature provides us with many services seemingly for free: recharged groundwater, fertile soil and plant biomass created by photosynthesis. We human beings draw extensive benefits from these “ecosystem services,” or ES – food, water supply, recreation and protection from natural hazards. Major international studies, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, have addressed the enormous role of biodiversity and ecosystems to human well-being, and they draw particular attention to the consequences resulting from the reduction or loss of these services. These very topical issues are being addressed by authors/scientists in a wide variety of disciplines – and their approaches, terminologies and methodological specifics are just as diverse. What, for example, does the efficacy of nature or natural capital mean? Which values of nature are particularly important, how are they distributed in space and time and how can they be assessed and the relevant knowledge promoted? Can all ecosystem services be quantified and even monetarised? What should be done to ensure that the multiple services of nature will be available also in future? This book explains the multifaceted concept of ecosystem services, provides a methodological framework for its analysis and assessment, and discusses case examples, particularly from Germany. It is addressed to scientists and practitioners in the administrative, volunteer and professional spheres, especially those who deal with environment, landscape management and nature conservation and regional and land-use planning. The target group includes experts from the business community, politicians and decision makers, students and all those interested in fundamental ecological, economic, ethical and environmental issues.

Author : Peter Kareiva
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199588992

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Natural Capital by Peter Kareiva Pdf

In 2005, The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) provided the first global assessment of the world's ecosystems and ecosystem services. It concluded that recent trends in ecosystem change threatened human wellbeing due to declining ecosystem services. This bleak prophecy has galvanized conservation organizations, ecologists, and economists to work toward rigorous valuations of ecosystem services at a spatial scale and with a resolution that can inform public policy. The editors have assembled the world's leading scientists in the fields of conservation, policy analysis, and resource economics to provide the most intensive and best technical analyses of ecosystem services to date. A key idea that guides the science is that the modelling and valuation approaches being developed should use data that are readily available around the world. In addition, the book documents a toolbox of ecosystem service mapping, modeling, and valuation models that both The Nature Conservancy and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) are beginning to apply around the world as they transform conservation from a biodiversity only to a people and ecosystem services agenda. The book addresses land, freshwater, and marine systems at a variety of spatial scales and includes discussion of how to treat both climate change and cultural values when examining tradeoffs among ecosystem services.

Author : Deane, Felicity,Hamman, Evan,Huggins, Anna
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Froukje Maria Platjouw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317293774

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Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach by Froukje Maria Platjouw Pdf

The ecosystem approach embodies a concept of the environment which emphasizes the integrated components of nature as complex adaptive systems. This book examines the relationship between the architecture and design of environmental law and the implementation of the ecosystem approach as a means to maintain ecological integrity. The main issue addressed is: in which manner and to what extent does fragmentation and administrative discretion in environmental law impede the implementation of an ecosystem approach? This is explored through analysis of several questions: what is an ecosystem approach and how could it be implemented; how can economic evaluation of ecosystem services contribute to the debate; to what extent is environmental law fragmented and how does this affect the implementation of the ecosystem approach; to what extent does environmental law contain administrative discretion and how does this affect the implementation of the ecosystem approach; is there a need for greater consistency, coherence and a stronger rule of law in environmental law in light of the ecosystem approach? The main focus is on Europe, with additional international comparisons where appropriate. The book concludes by providing a normative portrayal of future environmental law as protective, systemic and predictable.

Author : Julia Martin-Ortega,Robert C. Ferrier,Iain J. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107100374

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Water Ecosystem Services by Julia Martin-Ortega,Robert C. Ferrier,Iain J. Gordon Pdf

This book uses ecosystem services-based approaches to address major global and regional water challenges, for researchers, students, and policy makers.

Author : Vito De Lucia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351366526

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The 'Ecosystem Approach' in International Environmental Law by Vito De Lucia Pdf

The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy approach and in some cases legally binding obligations for States to implement what has been called a ‘new paradigm’ of environmental management. In this last respect, the ecosystem approach is also often considered to offer an opportunity to move beyond the outdated anthropocentric framework underpinning much of international environmental law, thus helping re-think law in the Anthropocene. Against this background, this book addresses the question of whether the ecosystem approach represents a paradigm shift in international environmental law and governance, or whether it is in conceptual and operative continuity with legal modernity. This central question is explored through a combined genealogical and biopolitical framework, which reveals how the ecosystem approach is the result of multiple contingencies and contestations, and of the interplay of divergent and sometimes irreconcilable ideological projects. The ecosystem approach, this books shows, does not have a univocal identity, and must be understood as both signalling the potential for a decisive shift in the philosophical orientation of law and the operationalisation of a biopolitical framework of control that is in continuity with, and even intensifies, the eco-destructive tendencies of legal modernity. It is, however, in revealing this disjunction that the book opens up the possibility of moving beyond the already tired assessment of environmental law through the binary of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ScholarlyEditions
Page : 1187 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781490106724

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Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition by Anonim Pdf

Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ book that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Science and Public Policy. The editors have built Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Science and Public Policy in this book to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Issues in Environmental Law, Policy, and Planning: 2013 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : NYPL:33433073609194

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Environmental Health Perspectives by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard O. Brooks,Ross Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351922913

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Law and Ecology by Richard O. Brooks,Ross Jones Pdf

In 1970 Earth Day was first celebrated marking the dawn of worldwide environmental consciousness and the passing of many environmental laws. In part, these events were the result of the maturing of the science of ecology which recognized the interdependence of the web and cycles of nature. This volume explores the relationship between ecology and environmental law, beginning with a description of the two very different disciplines. This description is followed by a history of their episodic interactions: the early period of origin, the mid-century formative period from 1950 to 1970, the initial serious period of interaction after Earth Day in 1970 and the testing of the relationship during the next two decades. Utilizing a number of case studies, examinations of the key 'linkage persons', legal instruments and the migration of ecological concepts and frameworks, this book analyzes the final flowering of an ecosystem regime which embraces the connections between the two disciplines of ecology and environmental law. Concluding with an inventory of the problems posed by the relationship between the two disciplines and an agenda for future research, this clearly structured, comprehensive and stringent book is an essential resource for all serious scholars and students of ecology and environmental law.

Author : Lawrence J. MacDonnell,Sarah F. Bates
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Natural resources
ISBN : 1604424303

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The Evolution of Natural Resources Law and Policy by Lawrence J. MacDonnell,Sarah F. Bates Pdf

Natural resources law is a dynamic field of practice, with a rich history that reaches back several centuries. The authors look at current challenges and offer ideas about the future while demonstrating that the federal government's role continues to be a complex one as markets and private actors become more visible participants in the current policy arena. Part I provides foundational analyses of the law, while the second part reviews thematic issues in the area.