1st Edition
Whales and Elephants in International Conservation Law and Politics A Comparative Study
1. Introduction
2. Multilateral Environmental Treaties
3. The First Old Watchdog: the ICRW
4. The Second Old Watchdog: CITES
5. CITES and Elephants
6. The IWC, CITES and Whaling
7. Conservation of Elephants and Whales
8. Sovereignty and Environmental Damage
9. Different Palates: Oriental and Occidental
10. Biodiversity
11. ICRW/IWC Membership
12. Special Animals and Links between Species
13. Toward a Conclusion
14. In Black and White and Shades of Grey: Recommendations
Biography
Ed Couzens holds the degrees of BA Hons LLB (Wits), LLM Environmental Law (Natal and Nottingham) and PhD (KZN). He is an Attorney of the High Court, South Africa; and, at time of writing, an Associate Professor in the School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. He is rated as an 'established researcher' by the National Research Foundation of South Africa for the years 2013–2018; has been an Assistant Editor on the South African Journal of Environmental Law and Policy since 2001; and has been a co-editor of the University of Eastern Finland/United Nations Environment Programme International Environmental Law-making and Diplomacy Review since 2006. He is also a qualified field guide in South Africa.
"Couzens' work is a lasting and most valuable contribution to the continuing debate on whale and elephant conservation regimes, which no future study of the topic can afford to overlook" - Peter H. Sand, in International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (March 2015)
