The Laws of Nature: Reflections on the Evolution of Ecosystem Management Law and Policy

Authors

Kalyani Robbins

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Description

This timely collection written by an interdisciplinary array of law professors, who specialize in legal and policy issues surrounding ecosystem management, and scholars and practitioners in areas such as environmental policy and planning, conservation, economics, and biology explore why ecosystems must be valued and managed in their own right. The importance of ecosystems has been underestimated. We cannot simply hope ecosystems will benefit from legislation focused on other environmental and natural resource protections, such as those for wildlife, trees, air and water. An ecosystem, a community of organisms together with their physical environment, viewed as a system of interacting and interdependent relationships, has its own intricate administrative issues. Edited by Kalyani Robbins, a law professor, The Laws of Nature will investigate how ecosystems function, their value to humans and wildlife, and what factors affect ecosystems' survival. This analysis is coupled with cutting-edge theories and regulatory proposals from legal scholars who study ecosystem questions. In the end, a thorough and multi-disciplinary understanding of the importance of ecosystem will be presented.

ISBN

978-1-935603-63-4

Publication Date

Spring 2-19-2013

Publisher

University of Akron Press

City

Akron, Ohio

Keywords

Environment, Law

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Social Statistics

Recommended Citation

Robbins, Kalyani, "The Laws of Nature: Reflections on the Evolution of Ecosystem Management Law and Policy" (2013). University of Akron Press Publications. 175.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/uapress_publications/175