1st Edition

Law, Ecology, and the Management of Complex Systems The Case of Water Governance

By Tiina Paloniitty Copyright 2023
202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.