Froukje Maria Platjouw

Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach

Maintaining Ecological Integrity Through Consistency in Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138183131
• ISBN-10: 113818313X
• Artikelnr.: 45057387

Autorenporträt

Froukje Maria Platjouw is a Research Scientist in the Section for Water and Society at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Oslo, Norway. She was previously a Research Fellow in the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction 2. The Ecosystem Approach: Its Understanding and Legal
Development 3. Ecosystems as Subjects of Environmental Law: Their
Complexity and Integrity 4. Ecosystem Services Valuation: Usage and
Challenges 5. Fragmentation in Environmental Law 6. Administrative
Discretion in Environmental Law 7. An Illustration of the Problem: Offshore
Petroleum Exploitation in the North Sea Ecosystem 8. Towards Consistency,
Coherence and a Stronger Rule of Law 9. Conclusion