Legal Design for Social-Ecological Resilience

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-84017-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Theories of social-ecological resilience have developed over the past decades and rapidly become an important framework for governance of complex non-linear environmental problems. This book explores the resilience theories and their compatibility with law, it identifies corresponding legal features. The legal features identified, including legal measures, mechanisms, principles and approaches, form a legal design for social-ecological resilience. A legal design that can be applied to different governance situations. It can be a tool both for designing new laws, as well as for assessing the effectiveness of current laws and legal systems. In many ways environmental law has adjusted and developed new approaches to meet complex environmental problems, but law is still challenged by the complexity that characterize environmental problems and the environmental change connected with the Anthropocene. This book provides a comprehensive review of the most fundamental components of the governance framework for social-ecological resilience and the role of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bohman, Brita

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Umweltrecht allg., Technikrecht, Immissionsschutzrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Environmental law; 3. Law and governance; 4. Defining features for resilience governance; 5. Adaptivity, flexibility and transformability; 6. Multidimensional and polycentric structures; 7. Stakeholders and structures for participation; 8. Operationalization, monitoring, compliance and trust building; 9. Conclusions – effective legal design for resilience governance.

Über Autor(innen)

Bohman, Brita
Brita Bohman has an LL.D. in environmental law from the Faculty of law at Stockholm University, Sweden. Her dissertation on law and resilience from 2017 was conducted in a transdisciplinary research environment, in cooperation with Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University.