Social-Ecological Resilience and Law.
Title:
Social-Ecological Resilience and Law.
Author:
Garmestani, Ahjond S.
ISBN:
9780231536356
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (306 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Social-Ecological Resilience and Law -- 1. Wilderness Preserves: Still Relevant and Resilient After All These Years -- 2. Bringing Resilience to Wildlife Management and Biodiversity Protection -- 3. Landscape-Level Management of Parks, Refuges, and Preserves for Ecosystem Resilience -- 4. Marine Protected Areas, Marine Spatial Planning, and the Resilience of Marine Ecosystems -- 5. Resilience and Water Governance: Addressing Fragmentation and Uncertainty in Water Allocation and Water Quality Law -- 6. Institutionalized Cooperation and Resilience in Transboundary Freshwater Allocation -- 7. Ecosystem Services, Ecosystem Resilience, and Resilience of Ecosystem Management Policy -- 8. Maintaining Resilience in the Face of Climate Change -- 9. Matching Scales of Law with Social-Ecological Contexts to Promote Resilience -- 10. Incorporating Resilience and Innovation into Law and Policy: A Case for Preserving a Natural Resource Legacy and Promoting a Sustainable Future -- 11. Adaptive Law -- 12. The Integration of Social-Ecological Resilience and Law -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Environmental law envisions ecological systems as existing in an equilibrium state, or a balance of nature," reinforcing a rigid legal framework unable to absorb rapid environmental changes and innovations in sustainability. For the past three decades, resilience theory," which embraces uncertainty and nonlinear dynamics in complex adaptive systems, has shown itself to be a robust and invaluable basis for sound environmental management. Reforming American law to account for this knowledge is key to transitioning to sustainability. This volume features top legal and resilience scholars speaking on resilience theory and its legal applications to climate change, biodiversity, national parks, and water law.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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