Achieving biodiversity protection in megadiverse countries : a comparative assessment of Australia and Brazil
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Achieving biodiversity protection in megadiverse countries : a comparative assessment of Australia and Brazil
（Routledge studies in biodiversity politics and management）
Routledge : Earthscan, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume systematically analyses why legal doctrines for the protection of biodiversity are not sufficiently effective. It examples implementation in Australia and Brazil, two megadiverse countries with very differing legal and cultural traditions and natural environments.
Substantial effort goes into the development and interpretation of legal doctrines for the protection of biodiversity in national and international law. Despite this, biodiversity continues in steep decline. Nowhere is this more evident than in megadiverse countries, such as Australia and Brazil, which possess the greatest number and diversity of animals and plants on Earth. The book covers a wide range of topics, including farming, mining, marine environments, indigenous interests and governance. Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries highlights specific causes of underperformance in protecting diverse terrestrial and marine environments. It provides proposals for more effective implementation in these two jurisdictions, relevant to other megadiverse territories, and for biodiversity protection generally. Each chapter was written by teams of Australian and Brazilian authors, so that similar issues are considered across both jurisdictions, to provide both country-specific and generalisable insights.
Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental law and governance and biodiversity conservation, as well as policymakers, practitioners and NGOs working in these fields.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
List of acronyms and abbreviations
1: The issues, methods and evidence
2: Controlling the biodiversity impacts of agriculture
3: Biodiversity risk management in mining
4: Creating and managing marine protected areas
5: Social justice and the management of protected areas
6: Low impact recreational use and biodiversity protection
7: Partnered governance of biodiversity
8: Biodiversity intelligence from satellites
9: The challenge of using drones
10: Funding biodiversity conservation
11: Governing the governance system
12: Strategies to improve outcomes
Appendix A: Legislation list
Appendix B: International material
Appendix C: Cases
Index
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