1st Edition

Nature Law and Policy in Europe

Edited By Andrew L. R. Jackson Copyright 2023
276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume considers current and future challenges for nature law and policy in Europe. Following the Fitness Check evaluation of the Birds and Habitats Directives, in 2017 the EU adopted an Action Plan for nature, people and the economy to rapidly improve the Directives’ implementation and accelerate progress towards the EU's biodiversity targets for 2020. More recently, the EU has adopted a... Read more

Chapter 1: Introduction

Andrew L. R. Jackson

Chapter 2: Recent developments in the implementation of EU nature legislation

Micheál Ó Briain

Chapter 3: The requirements for an effective international nature conservation system, and the EU Birds and Habitats Directives

John Temple Lang

Chapter 4: Ensuring compliance: regulatory regimes under the EU Nature Directives

Liam Cashman

Chapter 5: The margin of appreciation when applying Article 6(3) and (4) of the Habitats Directive

Christoph Sobotta


Chapter 6: The trigger for Article 6(3) appropriate assessment: the gateway revisited

Gregory Jones KC, BL


Chapter 7: Supporting nature conservation through an ecosystem services policy

Ian Hodge

Chapter 8: Judicial Review and nature cases in the UK: current challenges and future opportunities

Carol Day

Chapter 9: Science and the interpretation of the EU Habitats Directive by the Court of Justice of the EU: 2+2=5?

Hendrik Schoukens

Chapter 10: Strict protection of species in the EU: controversies and trends

Yaffa Epstein, José Vicente López-Bao and Guillaume Chapron

Chapter 11: Conservation of areas outside the Natura 2000 network: an historical perspective with an eye to the future

Andrew L.R. Jackson

Biography

Andrew L. R. Jackson is an Assistant Professor in Environmental and Planning Law in the UCD Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin, Ireland. He previously worked for the international law firm Slaughter and May in London and Paris; for the UK government's legal service, in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra); and with NGOs Friends of the Irish Environment and An Taisce, the National Trust for Ireland, where he was Natural Environment Officer and in-house Solicitor. He is the author of Conserving Europe’s Wildlife: Law and Policy of the Natura 2000 Network of Protected Areas (Routledge, 2018).