Rights For Ecosystem Services

Author : J. B. Ruhl
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597267694
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services written by J. B. Ruhl and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : J. B. Ruhl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services written by J. B. Ruhl and published by . This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents only

Author : J. B. Ruhl
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781559630955
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services written by J. B. Ruhl and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2007-05-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Giulia Sajeva
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040116590
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights for Ecosystem Services written by Giulia Sajeva and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-12 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how protecting the rights of local communities can contribute to the alleviation of ecological harms through the development of an innovative 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework. Ecosystem services describe the range of social, ecological, and economic benefits that people obtain from nature. Recognising the role of local communities, and criticizing the very use of the term services, this book draws on arguments for the rights of nature. Against a market approach to nature conservation it thereby transforms the current 'Payments for Ecosystem Services' framework into a unique 'Rights for Ecosystem Services' framework. With reference to a case study from Sicily, the book develops such a framework as a crucial means through which the environmental role of local communities can be recognised, protected, and fostered. Employing insights from a range of disciplines, this book will appeal to scholars working in the areas of environmental law, legal theory, political philosophy, human rights, and environmental studies, as well as others with practical concerns in the fields of conservation science and local communities' rights.

Author : Susan Hanna
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights to Nature written by Susan Hanna and published by . This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how rights to resources are assigned and how they are controlled is critical to designing and implementing effective strategies for environmental management and conservation. This book is a nontechnical, interdisciplinary introduction to the systems of rights, rules, and responsibilities that guide and control human use of the environment.

Author : Daniel P. Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000386139
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights of Nature written by Daniel P. Corrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rights of nature is an idea that has come of age. In recent years, a diverse range of countries and jurisdictions have adopted these norms, which involve granting legal rights to nature or natural objects, such as rivers, forests, or ecosystems. This book critically examines the idea of natural objects as right-holders and analyzes legal cases, policies, and philosophical issues relating to this development. Drawing on contributions from a range of experts in the field, Rights of Nature: A Re-examination investigates the potential for this innovative idea to revolutionize the concepts of rights, standing, and recognition as traditionally understood in many legal systems. Taking as its starting point Stone’s influential 1972 article "Should Trees Have Standing?," the book examines the progress rights of nature have made since that time, by identifying central themes, unifying principles, and key distinctions in how rights of nature discourse has been operationalized in the disciplines of law, philosophy, and the social sciences. These themes and principles are illustrated through a wide variety of examples, including ecosystem services, indigenous thinking, and ecological restoration, demonstrating how the relationship between humanity and the natural world may be transforming. Taking a philosophical, political, and legal perspective, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and policy, environmental ethics, and philosophy.

Author : Roldan Muradian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400751761
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the Provision of Ecosystem Services written by Roldan Muradian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, this edited volume features more than 20 original chapters, each informed by the paradigm shift in the sector over the last decade. Where once the emphasis was on strategies for conservation, enacted through instruments of control such as planning and ‘polluter pays’ legislation, more recent developments have shown a shift towards incentive-based arrangements aimed at those responsible for providing the environmental services enabled by such ecosystems. Encouraging shared responsibility for watershed management, developed in Costa Rica, is a prime example, and the various interests involved in its instauration in Java are one of the subjects examined here.

Author : Afshin Akhtar-Khavari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecosystem Services, Fear and the Subjects of Environmental Human Rights written by Afshin Akhtar-Khavari and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work reflects upon whether the concept of ecosystem services simply promotes and sustains an unacceptable domination and control of nature as compared to promoting and sustaining more intimate, integrated or wild experiences of it. It begins by describing what the concept of ecosystem services means and highlights the way in which it helps decision-makers to have discussions about people's preferences for certain things in the context of the functioning of ecosystems. This is followed by an introduction to and discussion of critiques of the concept of ecosystem services, which is then used to highlight the challenges it presents concerning how humans engage with the natural world. This part of the argument concludes that concepts like ecosystem services almost entirely gain their significance because of a human tendency to interact with nature as if the world is inert and powerless to impose itself in return. The last part of this chapter discusses our experiences of 'fear' to suggest that the language and concept of ecosystem services can dull our senses to certain realities about our relationship to the natural world. It is argued that our capacity to fear is critical for rewilding the human species and for ensuring that humans also have intimate experiences of nature through our senses rather than just mediating 'nature' through conceptual frameworks that abstract us apart from the natural world. Such a rewilding, by direct corollary, could have energizing critical implications for the identity of the 'human rights subject' at the heart of rights-based approaches and of legal systems more generally.

Author : Thomas Greiber
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831711762
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Payments for Ecosystem Services written by Thomas Greiber and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig M. Kauffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780262366601
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Rights of Nature written by Craig M. Kauffman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On the global development of legislation, treaty negotiations, constitutional measures, and litigation resulting in legal recognition of Rights of Nature (RoN), including the cultural and political influences that determined how these legal rights were framed, the method of adoption and, importantly, the evolution of RoN enforcement through judicial decisions and growing cultural familiarity with the new legal concept"--