Protected Areas (eBook)

A Legal Geography Approach

Josephine Gillespie (Autor)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XIII, 116 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-40502-1 (ISBN)

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This book argues that legal geography provides new insights into contemporary conservation challenges. Despite unprecedented efforts, we are facing an extinction crisis, and in situ protected area programs are falling short. This book discusses the protected area phenomenon and calls for changes to current approaches, informed by legal geography -an inter-disciplinary area focused on the intertwined people-place-law dynamics that enable, or disable, effective management practices. 

The book examines two protected area types: World Heritage Sites, where places of 'outstanding universal value' are protected for all humanity, and Ramsar protected wetland sites, one of the first global environmental protection initiatives. Using case studies from the Australasian region (Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia), it reveals how current approaches can be improved by taking into account the people-place-law nexus embedded in legal geography research.

Josephine Gillespie is an academic, and former lawyer, based at the University of Sydney, Australia. She is an environmental legal geographer interested in the complex intersection of geography and law. Her research investigates environmental protection and human-environment geographies throughout Australia and the Asia-Pacific. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.3.2020
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 116 p. 2 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Biodiversity Loss • Environmental Geography • Environmental Governance • Environmental Law • Environmental Policy • global environmental governance • legal geography • natural resource management • Protected areas
• ISBN-10: 3-030-40502-8 / 3030405028
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-40502-1 / 9783030405021