Ecological governance : reappraising law's role in protecting ecosystem functionality / Olivia Woolley.
2014
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Author
Title
Ecological governance : reappraising law's role in protecting ecosystem functionality / Olivia Woolley.
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Call Number
K3585 .W66 2014
ISBN
9781107060456 (hardback)
1107060451 (hardback)
1316191281
9781316191286
1316204278
9781316204276
1107060451 (hardback)
1316191281
9781316191286
1316204278
9781316204276
Description
ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)879468873
Summary
"Ecological degradation has been an object of concern for the international community since the early 1970s, but legal approaches that have been employed to improve the protection of ecosystems have failed to halt this decline. Ecological Governance explores how the law should respond to this rapid global deterioration of ecosystems by examining the foundational scientific and ethical considerations for designing laws that are effective for ecological protection. Based on these analyses, it argues that developed states should prioritise the reduction of the ecological stresses for which they are responsible in decision-making on their future courses. The author also proposes structures for governance and associated legal frameworks that would enable the formulation and implementation of policies for ecological sustainability"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University College London), 2011), under title: Developing a system of ecological governance.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-256) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
ix
1.
Introduction
1
1.1.
Avoiding societal collapse
1
1.2.
Ecosystems and ecological degradation
2
1.3.
Overcoming epistemic challenges
6
1.4.
Normative precaution
8
1.5.
The state, non-governmental actors and collaborative governance
10
1.6.
Adaptive governance
12
1.7.
Structure
14
2.
Scientific and ethical foundations
15
2.1.
Introduction
15
2.2.
Scientific foundations for ecological law
18
2.2.1.
From stability to complexity
19
2.2.2.
Ecosystems as complex adaptive systems
21
2.2.3.
Interaction between ecosystems and the Earth System
23
2.2.4.
Complexity, regime shifts and environmental decision-making
25
2.3.
The meaning of resilience
27
2.3.1.
Specified and general resilience
28
2.3.2.
What makes an ecosystem generally resilient?
32
2.3.2.1.
Biodiversity
34
2.3.2.2.
Tightness of feedbacks
36
2.4.
A legal framework for ecological protection
37
2.5.
Ethical foundations for ecological law
40
2.5.1.
The dominion perspective of nature
42
2.5.2.
Revaluing nature
44
2.6.
Duties and principles for ecologically oriented decision-making
47
3.
Ecologically oriented policy-making
53
3.1.
Introduction
53
3.1.1.
Adapting to endemic uncertainty
54
3.1.2.
Ecological policy-making
56
3.1.3.
Political will
58
3.2.
Decision-making in the face of uncertainty
59
3.2.1.
Precaution under an ecological paradigm
61
3.2.2.
Taking precautionary action
64
3.2.3.
Normative precaution
65
3.3.
A legal framework for ecologically oriented policy-making
67
3.3.1.
Ecological protection as a strategic objective
70
3.3.2.
Principles for ecological policy-making
71
3.3.2.1.
Reducing consumption
71
3.3.2.2.
Obviating development
73
3.3.2.3.
Substitution
74
3.3.2.4.
Sunsetting
76
3.3.3.
Assessing alternative policy options
77
3.3.4.
Forming strategic visions of desired futures
85
3.3.4.1.
Picturing the future
87
3.3.4.2.
Policy impact assessment
88
3.3.5.
Public participation in policy-making
89
3.4.
Reforming the policy-making process
93
3.4.1.
A whole-of-government approach
96
3.4.2.
Promoting change in the culture of governmental decision-making
98
3.4.2.1.
The rolling review of policy
99
3.4.2.2.
The independent review of policy proposals
101
4.
Governing an ecological transition
104
4.1.
Introduction
104
4.2.
Designing a system of ecological governance
105
4.3.
The limitations of devolution
107
4.4.
The state's role in ecological governance
115
4.4.1.
A guiding state
118
4.4.2.
A communicative state
120
4.4.3.
A coordinating state
121
4.4.4.
An enforcing state
123
4.5.
Expanding the state's range
126
4.5.1.
Regional government
126
4.6.
Local government
131
4.6.1.
Legitimacy
132
4.6.2.
Giving form to ecological sustainability
133
4.6.3.
Promoting behavioural change
136
4.6.4.
Constructing a sense of sustainable places
137
4.7.
Marine governance
139
4.7.1.
Bridging the land/sea divide
143
5.
Ecological planning
146
5.1.
Introduction
146
5.1.1.
Reforming land use planning
150
5.2.
Environmental limits and governance
153
5.2.1.
Identifying environmental capacities
154
5.2.2.
The limitations of limits-based regulation
158
5.2.3.
Ecological and ethical difficulties
159
5.2.4.
Ecological planning
162
5.3.
A national framework for ecological planning
164
5.3.1.
Comprehensive planning
165
5.3.2.
Analytical planning
169
5.3.3.
Strategic planning
172
5.3.4.
Ecological land use planning
175
5.3.5.
Decision rules
177
5.4.
Environmental assessment
183
6.
Public participation in ecological governance
187
6.1.
Introduction
187
6.2.
The promise of deliberation
190
6.2.1.
Transforming preferences
190
6.2.2.
Internalising environmental considerations
191
6.2.3.
Catalysing value formation
193
6.2.4.
Enhancing the acceptability of ecological governance
195
6.3.
Putting deliberation into practice: challenges and responses
198
6.3.1.
Unpredictability: problem or opportunity?
200
6.3.2.
Levelling the playing field
202
6.3.3.
Deliberation's reach
205
6.3.4.
Consultation's inadequacy
208
6.4.
Deliberative participation under ecological governance
210
7.
Informing ecological governance
215
7.1.
Introduction
215
7.1.1.
Addressing the information deficit
216
7.1.2.
Legal requirements for ecological information
218
7.2.
Developing a capacity for institutional learning
219
7.2.1.
Combining ecology and law: from problem-solving to permanence
220
7.3.
Using law to maintain the flow of information
225
7.3.1.
Increasing knowledge and understanding of ecosystems
226
7.3.2.
Enabling reaction to change
227
7.3.3.
Enabling responsiveness to systemic reactions
229
7.4.
Using structures for decision-making to stimulate information flows
230
7.4.1.
The adequacy of information for decision-making
230
7.4.2.
Generating information through exploratory development
232
Bibliography
234
Index
257