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The Use Of Delphi For The Listing Of Species And Ecological Communities, Angela Dwyer
The Use Of Delphi For The Listing Of Species And Ecological Communities, Angela Dwyer
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
This paper considers the limitations of the current methodologies and the potential for the use of the Delphi method as part of the regulatory response to biodiversity loss through the listing of species and ecological communities.
Decision-making in relation to threatened species and ecological communities, especially when the ubiquitous ‘listing’ may be the required outcome to attract a conservation response, is particularly susceptible to challenges over methodology.
Many decisions are made under circumstances where the available scientific evidence is uncertain, inadequate, or inexact; the decisions are generally science-based and the link between science and policy is clouded; and there is …
The Value(S) Of Biodiversity, Mathilde Boutonnet
The Value(S) Of Biodiversity, Mathilde Boutonnet
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Biodiversity today is mainly assessed by the economy. Yet, now both natural sciences and law play a growing part in that field. Our contribution proposes to outline the main biodiversity assessment methods to understand how they are received by law as well as to question their interest and efficiency against the environment protection imperative and to understand the answers offered by the law in regards to biodiversity in terms of “value” or “monetization”.
The legal issue at stake is important as law plays its own part in granting value to biodiversity. This supposes that legal practitioners pay attention to the …
The Emerging Institutional Risks From Widespread Adoption Of An Ecosystem Services Market Approach To Environmental Governance, Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams, Amanda Kennedy
The Emerging Institutional Risks From Widespread Adoption Of An Ecosystem Services Market Approach To Environmental Governance, Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams, Amanda Kennedy
Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads
Best practice commercial management involves two distinct mindsets, harnessed for separate purposes. The innovative mindset is concerned with the creative side of enterprise – entrepreneurship, innovation, strategising and commercialisation). However this is also married to a more pessimistic mindset focused on the identification and avoidance of what might go wrong- (risk management).
The modernist paradigm for environmental governance stresses scientific model-based estimation to determine resource use-limits, legally specified property rights to fractions of the environment, market or market like mechanisms for allocation of interests, and scientific methods of performance of the strategies. These elements exist in varying forms regardless of …