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  • Conserving Europe's Wildlife

    Law and Policy of the Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas

    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    The Natura 2000 network of protected areas is the centrepiece of European Union nature policy, currently covering almost one-fifth of the EU’s entire land territory plus large marine areas. This vast EU-wide network, which aims to conserve Europe’s most valuable and threatened species and habitats, has major impacts on land use throughout all Member States of the EU. This book critically assesses ... Read more

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  • Nature Law and Policy in Europe

    Edited by Andrew L. R. Jackson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe.Following the Fitness Check evaluation of the Birds and Habitats Directives, in 2017 the EU adopted an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy to rapidly improve the Directives’ implementation and accelerate progress towards the EU's biodiversity targets for 2020. More recently, the EU has adopted a ... Read more

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    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

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  • International Environmental Law

    International Environmental Law is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the other serious environmental challenges facing the world. The book has also been kept deliberately ... Read more

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  • Lyster's International Wildlife Law

    The development of international wildlife law has been one of the most significant exercises in international law-making during the last fifty years. This second edition of Lyster's International Wildlife Law coincides with both the UN Year of Biological Diversity and the twenty-fifth anniversary of Simon Lyster's first edition. The risk of wildlife depletion and species extinction has become even ... Read more

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  • Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta

    An Advocacy Coalition Approach

    Between 1995 and 2005, the government of Alberta undertook major reforms to the way water is governed in the arid southern part of the province. Among the most significant reforms was the imposition of moratoria on new water licenses, the introduction of a market for buying and selling existing water licenses, and the adoption of a “conservation holdback” mechanism for returning some licensed ... Read more

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  • The Habitats Directive

    A Developer's Obstacle Course?

    Edited by Gregory Jones KC ...
    Biodiversity within the European Union is under threat. Almost a quarter of Europe's vascular plant species and 155 species of its native mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians are threatened with extinction. The Habitats Directive imposes a strict regime for environmental protection. But with the euro zone economy falling from 'stagnation' to 'contraction' in the second quarter of 2012 and the ... Read more

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  • The Habitats Directive in its EU Environmental Law Context

    European Nature’s Best Hope?

    Series series Routledge Research in EU Law
    This book analyses the Habitats Directive; one of the most prominent piece of EU environmental legislation of the past decades. Seen by some as the cornerstone of Europe’s nature conservation policy, among other measures the Directive established the so-called "Natura 2000" ecological network, which covers more than 18% of the surface of the EU. However, despite the fact the Directive was adopted ... Read more

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  • Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law

    A Practitioner's Guide

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  • Routledge Handbook of Water Law and Policy

    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis for ... Read more

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  • Trans-jurisdictional Water Law and Governance

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Governance of global water resources presents one of the most confounding challenges in contemporary natural resource governance. With considerable government, citizen and financial donor attention devoted to a range of international, transnational and domestic laws and policies aimed at protecting, managing and sustainably using fresh and coastal marine water resources, this book proposes that ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries

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    First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries, where the effects tend to be more acute due to underdevelopment and climatic factors, this work aims to examine this source of uncertainty and make ... Read more

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