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The University of Akron Press
- The Laws of Nature: Managing Ecosystems for A Sustainable Future
- Book
- 2013
- Published by: The University of Akron Press
- Series: &Law
summary
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 will investigate how ecosystems function, their value to humans and wildlife, and what factors affect ecosystems' survival. This analysis will be 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 will be presented.
Table of Contents
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- Contributors
- pp. ix-x
- I. Understanding and Evaluating Ecosystem Management Thus Far
- 2. Ecosystem-Based Management
- pp. 20-41
- II. Letting Theory Inform Practice
- III. Making Better Use of Existing Federal Law
- IV. Finding the Right Tools Going Forward
Additional Information
ISBN
9781937378271
Related ISBN(s)
9781935603634
MARC Record
OCLC
864854746
Launched on MUSE
2013-05-19
Language
English
Open Access
No