Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems

The Case of Water Governance
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-05499-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Law, Science and Society

This book addresses the role of law in the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems.

Recent years have witnessed a rise in discussion over the relation between adaptivity and law, as if after decades of insouciance, legal scholars have finally started to understand the impacts of the scientific paradigm called ‘adaptive management’ on the legal sphere. Even though the complicated relations between law and the adaptive management of socio-ecological systems have become more debated, a thorough examination of the scientific and theoretical fundamentals of such endeavours has yet to be presented. Using the illustrative example of European Union water governance and its path toward embracing adaptive management, this book emphasises the legal significance of properly understanding the manner in which scientific knowledge of the environment is produced. Though always pivotal, rigorously apprehending science is especially crucial when dealing with the management of complex ecosystems as the ‘normative’ is created gradually before law begins to examine the ‘facts’ of the matter. After examining the roots of adaptive management, this book argues that the legal needs to understand itself as an integral part of the process of the socio-ecological management of complex systems and not merely an external umpire resolving disputes.

As a whole, the book offers new insights into the EU regulator’s approaches to scientific realities, making it an interesting read not only to academics and legal scholars but also to regulators striving to deepen their understanding or pondering which approach to adopt in the face of new regulatory challenges, and to scientists interested in the science and law aspects of their work.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paloniitty, Tiina

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Schul-, Hochschul- und Prüfungsrecht, Wissenschaftsrecht, Forschung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Landwirtschaftsrecht, Forst-, Jagd- und Fischereirecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Energierecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Setting the Scene of Law, Ecology and Complexity of the Agricultural Runoff Dilemma 2. The First Three Faces: The Nitrates Directive, the Cap and the Strategy 3. Adapting (to) the Management 4. To Frame Water 5. Adaptivity and Law in Jurisprudential Analysis 6. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Tiina Paloniitty is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Eric Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science and Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.