1st Edition

The 'Ecosystem Approach' in International Environmental Law Genealogy and Biopolitics

By Vito De Lucia Copyright 2019
311 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

311 Pages
by Routledge

The ecosystem approach, broadly understood as a legal and governance strategy for integrated environmental and biodiversity management, has been adopted within a wide variety of international environmental legal regimes and provides a narrative, a policy approach and in some cases legally binding obligations for States to implement what has been called a ‘new paradigm’ of environmental... Read more

Contents



Preface



Part I: Setting the Stage

1. Setting the Stage



Part II: A Genealogical Reading of the Ecosystem Approach



2. Genealogy as a Legal Method



3. Locating the ‘Ecosystem Approach’



4. The Multiplicity of the ‘Ecosystem Approach’: Histories, Concepts, Names



5. Underneath the ‘Ecosystem Approach’: Ecology as a Framework of Ambiguity



6. The ‘Ecosystem Approach’ between Competing Narratives



Part III: A Biopolitical Reading of the ‘Ecosystem Approach’



7. Beyond Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism



8. A Biopolitical Framework



9. A Biopolitical Critique of the ‘Ecosystem Approach’: Biodiversity Conservation



10. Inside and against Biopolitics: Towards a Productive Reading of the ‘Ecosystem Approach’?



11. Conclusions



Index

 

Biography

Vito De Lucia is a PostDoc Fellow at the K. G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea, Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway.