{"title":"Legal considerations in operationalizing eco-restoration in the European Union","authors":"Hendrik Schoukens","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114172857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reforming restoration law to support climate change adaptation","authors":"Pc McCormack","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-12","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes the emerging concept of ‘renewal ecology’ as a lens through which to analyse whether restoration laws and policies can enhance conservation in a period of rapid, anthropogenic environmental change. Renewal ecology emphasises the need to take adaptation-oriented approaches to restoring ecological health and function. While continuing to emphasise the importance of conserving the natural world, renewal ecology accommodates concepts of ecological novelty, and accepting a potential role for humans as well as non-human ‘novel’ species and interactions, in the task of renewing landscape-scale ecological functions. This chapter demonstrates that Australia’s legal frameworks for restoration, by contrast, are typically reactive, focused on a stationary and simplistic view of nature that assumes that harm can be ‘undone’ over relatively short timeframes. The chapter argues that the concept of ‘renewal’ provides a useful way to reconceive of the task of restoration. In particular, the concept of renewal has the potential to support new legal mechanisms for helping biodiversity to thrive, despite the dramatic challenge that climate change represents to life on Earth.","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117183003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public participation and socio-economic justice in eco-restoration law and governance","authors":"U. Etemire, Menes Abinami Muzan","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"244 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123011455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motivating ecological restoration by private landowners through special purpose districts","authors":"Anastasia Telesetsky","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125410947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecological restoration and the Anthropocene","authors":"A. Akhtarkhavari, B. Richardson","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-1","url":null,"abstract":"Ecological recovery has never been more important yet incongruously remains a \u0000low priority in environmental law. Most policy-makers perceive the intensifying \u0000upheavals of the Anthropocene as reasons to pay ever more attention to the future \u0000so as to forestall further degradation. Climate change, species extinctions, oceans \u0000of plastic debris and other ecological tolls loom on the horizon as an ever-real \u0000dystopia. We cannot ignore the urgency to halt dissipation of the life-sustaining \u0000biosphere, yet equally we should heal past losses in order to make sustaining what \u0000remains more viable. The Anthropocene is not a recent phenomenon but derives \u0000from a long history of anthropogenic environmental change that began at least \u0000with the onset of industrialisation two centuries ago and possibly earlier with the \u0000advent of agriculture. Under the aegis of the philosophy of sustainable development, which provides environmental law’s conceptual ballast, regulators dwell on \u0000forestalling future adversity rather than addressing past follies. The legal priority is \u0000commonly to avert, mitigate or adapt to new ecological impacts rather than to \u0000repair past damage. This stance may also emotionally and culturally weaken people’s sense of environmental stewardship on the presumption that nature has the \u0000capacity to passively restore itself through processes of ecological succession, species evolution and so forth. Damaged or degraded ecosystems sometimes can \u0000recover through their own processes, as evident in how nature rebounds after fires, \u0000floods or droughts; however, some recovery may be effectively impossible, such as \u0000when invasive species have fundamentally altered ecological equilibriums or toxic \u0000pollutants become embedded in land or water.","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128825342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The social life of plants and trees and the limits of environmental law’s recovery imagination","authors":"A. Akhtarkhavari","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-2","url":null,"abstract":"In The Natural Contract,1 and also Biogea,2 Michel Serres inspires a critique of the social contract that has underpinned concepts like that of the nation-state, and also law and jurisprudence more generally.3 Being wide-ranging in its scope and allegorical in style, Serres’ work develops the idea that a rational order of any kind emerging from human politics has potential to do violence to objects, matter or nature because of the way that our concepts, language and power prioritise human concern.4 He explores ways in which language, concepts, knowledge and other human artefacts capture the world and restrict how we engage with matter.5...","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123432018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Timescapes of ecological restoration","authors":"B. Richardson","doi":"10.4324/9780429468315-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429468315-3","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter evaluates eco-restoration governance through the intertwined lenses \u0000of time and space (aka ‘timescapes’) because they offer novel and important \u0000insights into restoration decision-making that analyses focusing on actors, tools \u0000and other commonly evaluated dimensions do not reveal so clearly. Drawing on \u0000some examples and ideas from my recent book Time and Environmental Law, but extending it considerably with fresh insights on the spatial context, the chapter \u0000has two aims: first, to demonstrate how time and space can be used to critique \u0000current thinking about eco-restoration, especially in light of the Anthropocene, \u0000which is re-shaping human perceptions of time and space; and second, to illuminate potential pathways for governance reform that can improve eco-restoration \u0000practices.","PeriodicalId":151045,"journal":{"name":"Ecological Restoration Law","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123763559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}