Research Handbook on Biodiversity and Law

About this book

The crucial importance of biodiversity law to future human welfare is only now being fully appreciated. This wide-ranging Handbook presents a range of perspectives from leading international experts reflecting up-to-date research thinking on the vital subject of biodiversity and its interaction with law.

Through a rigorous examination of the principles, procedures and practices that characterise this area of law, this timely volume effectively highlights its objectives, implementation, achievements, and prospects. More specifically, the work addresses the regulatory challenges posed by the principal contemporary threats to biological diversity, the applicable general principles of international environmental law and the visions, values and voices that are shaping the development of the law. Presenting thematic rather than regime-based coverage, the editors demonstrate the state-of-the-art of current research and identify future research needs and directions.

This comprehensive and authoritative Handbook will be an indispensable resource for legal scholars, students and practitioners alike.

Contents

Preface

PART I VISIONS, VALUES AND VOICES
1. Law, Legal Scholarship and the Conservation of Biological Diversity: 2020 Vision and Beyond
Michael Bowman

2. In Whose Interest? Instrumental and Intrinsic Value in Biodiversity Law
Mattia Fosci and Tom West

3. Participatory Resource Management: A Caribbean Case Study
Nicole Mohammed

4. The Role of Non-State Actors in Treaty Regimes for the Protection of Marine Biodiversity
Elizabeth A. Kirk

PART II SIGNIFICANT THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY
5. Climate Change, Marine Biodiversity and International Law
Rosemary Rayfuse

6. Broad Spectrum Efforts to Enhance the Conservation of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
Edward J. Goodwin

7. Alien Invasive Species – is the EU’s Strategy Fit for Purpose?
Peter Davies

8. Countering Fragmentation of Habitats under International Wildlife Regimes
Arie Trouwborst

9. Armed Conflict and Biodiversity
Karen Hulme

PART III GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
10. The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Concept of Sustainable Development: The Extent and Manner of the Convention’s Application of Components of the Concept
Veit Koester

11. Whaling and Inter- and Intra-Generational Equity
Malgosia Fitzmaurice

12. Common Concern, Common Heritage and other Global(-ising) Concepts: Rhetorical Devices, Legal Principles or a Fundamental Challenge?
Duncan French

PART IV REGULATORY CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES
13. Biodiversity, Knowledge and the Making of Rights: Reviewing the Debates on Bioprospecting and Ownership
Emilie Cloatre

14. Ecological Restoration in International Biodiversity Law: A Promising Strategy to Address Our Failure to Prevent?
Kees Bastmeijer

15. Non-Compliance Procedures and the Implementation of Commitments under Wildlife Treaties
Karen N. Scott

16. ‘Only Connect’? Regime Interaction and Global Biodiversity Conservation
Richard Caddell

Index

Customer Reviews

Biography

Contributors
- K. Bastmeijer
- M. Bowman
- R. Caddell
- E. Cloatre
- P. Davies
- M. Fitzmaurice
- M. Fosci
- D. French
- E.J. Goodwin
- K. Hulme
- E.A. Kirk
- V. Koester
- N. Mohammed
- R. Rayfuse
- K.N. Scott
- A. Trouwborst
- T. West